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Maimonides

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Importance of Aristotle's Philosophy

Mishneh Torah is a kind of set of foundations of the law. A lot of this consists of a resume of Aristotelian philosophy. He doesn't slavishly follow Aristotle by any means, so for example, he says that on some points you want to adopt the extreme rather than the mean. For my monadist as an individual, you could reach the ideal, even if he didn't go through the Mishneh Torah and all the halah-kot. But for that you had to be an exceptional individual.

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