Medieval Jewish philosophy · Aristotelianism · 1138–1204

Maimonides

Understand the Law without betraying reason.

Córdoba · Fez · Fustat

Portraits: artistic interpretations

Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Follow how the Guide reads biblical language, speaks of God by negation and weighs creation against eternity.

Examine how the Mishneh Torah arranges the whole of Jewish law and why it opens with the knowledge of God.

Study the Eight Chapters on the faculties of the soul, the mean and free will, and compare them with Aristotle.