Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed"
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 83-101
Keywords:
Maimonides, Moses,
;
Fārābī Criticism and interpretation
;
Metaphysics Philosophy
Abstract:
Maimonides makes extensive use of metaphysics in the Guide, but he does not discuss the discipline’s nature or many of the basic issues it addresses. Instead, the Guide’s readers would need to be familiar with the tradition of metaphysical inquiry that Maimonides draws on, which is that of the peripatetic philosophers. Aristotle’s Metaphysics stands at its head, and Maimonides received it mediated through Greek and Arabic commentaries. Among the major Arabic commentators, Al-Farabi is known as “the second teacher,” after Aristotle; the titles are accorded them by Avicenna, who credits Al-Farabi with enabling him to understand the Metaphysics.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108635134.009
URL:
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