Category: Maimonides
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Existence and Divine Simplicity: A Stroll Along the Via Negativa with Maimonides
Here is an important passage from Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), The Guide to the Perplexed, Dover, p. 80: It is known that existence is an accident appertaining to all things, and therefore an element superadded to their essence. This must evidently be the case as regards everything the existence of which is due to some cause:…
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Maimonides on Existence as an Accident and on Divine Simplicity
I'm on a bit of a Jewish jag at the moment, in part under the influence of my Jewish friend Peter who turned me on to Soloveitchik. But Peter should labor under no false expectation that he will convert me to any version of Judaism; it is more likely that I shall get him out…