Book contents
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Form
- Part II Human Beginnings
- Part III The Creator
- Chapter 5 The Scope of Metaphysics
- Chapter 6 His Existence Is Essentiality
- Chapter 7 “Whereof One Cannot Speak”
- Part IV The Created
- Part V Human Finitude
- Part VI Human Ends
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 7 - “Whereof One Cannot Speak”
from Part III - The Creator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
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Book contents
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Form
- Part II Human Beginnings
- Part III The Creator
- Chapter 5 The Scope of Metaphysics
- Chapter 6 His Existence Is Essentiality
- Chapter 7 “Whereof One Cannot Speak”
- Part IV The Created
- Part V Human Finitude
- Part VI Human Ends
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Maimonides is one of the most radical defenders of apophaticism, the view according to which no positive attribute can be truthfully applied to God, and that God is consequently ineffable. His apophatic theology has several important dimensions, and it is in the Guide for the Perplexed that he offers the most elaborate account of his views.
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- Maimonides' Guide of the PerplexedA Critical Guide, pp. 125 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021