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Episode 101: Maimonides on God

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Accidental Property of God

Maimonides: Everything God does is necessary. It just comes out of his nature. But he also wants to say that it is not the case that the created world is a necessary happenstance because of God's nature. And Maimonides, as part of his broad picture of what he's arguing against, this Aristotelian scientific view,. That would rule out a personal God that in some way makes decisions.

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