The Guide for the Perplexed, Part 2
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Moses Maimonides
In the Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) achieved an original and highly influential synthesis of religious and secular learning, drawing on Rabbinical teachings, the Aristotelian and neo-Platonic doctrines then current in the Islamic world, as well as his own scriptural exegeses and philosophical arguments. According to Encyclopaedia Judaica, "almost every philosophic work for the remainder of the Middle Ages cited, commented on, or criticized Maimonides' views." - Summary by Kazbek (8 hr 47 min)
Chapters
The Author's Introduction. The Twenty-Six Propositions employed by the Philosop…
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I. Philosophical proofs for the Existence, Incorporeality, and Unity of the Fir…
25:30
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X. The Influence of the Spheres upon the Earth manifests itself in four differe…
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XIV. Seven Methods by which the Philosophers sought to prove the Eternity of th…
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XVII. The Laws of Nature apply to Things Created, but do not regulate the Creat…
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XVIII. Examinations of the Proofs of Philosophers for the Eternity of the Unive…
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XXI. Explanation of the Aristotelian Theory that the Universe is the necessary …
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XXIII. The Theory of Creatio ex nihilo is preferable to that of the Eternity of…
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XXIV. Difficulty of Comprehending the Nature and the Motion of the Spheres acco…
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XXV. The Theory of Creation is adopted because of its own Superiority, the Proo…
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XXVI. Examination of a passage from Pirke di-Rabbi Eliezer in reference to Crea…
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XXVII. The Theory of a Future Destruction of the Universe is not part of the Re…
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XXVIII. Scriptural Teaching is in favour of the Indestructibility of the Univer…
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XXIX. Explanation of Scriptural Phrases implying the Destruction of Heaven and…
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XXXI. The Institution of the Sabbath serves (1) to Teach the Theory of Creation…
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XXXIII. The Difference between Moses and the other Israelites as regards the Re…
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XXXV. The Difference between Moses and the other Prophets as regards the Mirac…
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XXXVII. On the Divine Influence upon Man's Imaginative and Mental Faculties th…
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XLII. Prophets Received Direct Communication only in Dreams or Visions
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XLIV. On the Different Modes in which Prophets Receive Divine Messages
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XLVI. The Allegorical Acts of Prophets formed Parts of Prophetic Visions
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XLVIII. Scripture ascribes Phenomena directly produced by Natural Causes to God…
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