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HoP 162 - Sarah Stroumsa on Maimonides

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Maimonides was conscious of the fact that people in the community were of different intellectual ability and with different levels of understandings. He really didn't want to shake the community, but he did want to inculcate into even very simple people some basic truth. There are differences between his various books, but there are differences of how much you can teach people in what language. I don't think you will find that in any of his books he supports dialectical theology. But he allows for simpler and less complicated argumentations.

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