
HoP 162 - Sarah Stroumsa on Maimonides
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of the Body in the Afterlife
In medieval philosophy, this issue comes up over and over what will happen if reason or philosophy tells us one thing. And religion or scripture or the religious tradition tells us something else. Maimonides' solution is just well, be quiet if that happens. So that strikes me as a unsatisfactory physician to be in. In that position, in that question, he's very much like a Veruis. He doesn't say be quiet. He says this is what the religion says. It's not something that we discuss logically. But then aside from it, in a different context, he does say what he does believe will happen. The world to come is a blissful existence, which
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