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Maimonides

In Our Time

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The Importance of the Mind in Human Existence

Peter Adamson asks how widely was Maimonides read in his time briefly and what about future generations? How did his work percolate through the century? The soul is a complicated entity. It has baser parts. And these are not the parts of which we as human beings should be proud, he says. He's always treading this line between saying what reason can do and what it can't do.

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