maimonides

Dejan Piskacek mid phil essay #2


Maimonides attitude towards the ancient philosophers and the philosophy of the ancient world was that these people like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and were wrong about a lot of things. Maimonides was a Jewish philosopher. Maimonides didn’t like the Islamic religion. He believed that it was better to kill yourself then convert to Islam. Maimonides had no religious tolerance. I believe he did not Muslim people because they forced his family to move around much until they decided to live in Cairo, Egypt. He did not want to even comprehend the thought that Judism was not the answer to the questions of religion. Maimonides wrote the book the Guide to The Perplexed and in this book he tried to interweave both Jewish law and Greek philosophy.
Maimonides believed that these ancient philosophers seemed to be missing key points in all thier arguments. This in turn gave Maimonides a chance to exercise and expla...