Posts Tagged ‘maimonides’

December 9, 2009 1

Theses on Mysticism and Dialectic

By Robert Minto in Epistemology, Learning, Mystery, Thinking, Virtue

(Courtesy of the prompting of Maimonides, Yair Lorberbaum, Karl Barth, and my all-nighter—on whom be no blame for the result.)

Mysticism and dialectic share a willingness to suspend the certainty and comfort of dogmatic pronouncement for better things. Mysticism refuses to degrade the divine by insisting that one apparently mutually exclusive truth disproves another, while dialectic [...]

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November 25, 2009 1

Are We Temporally Alienated?

By Robert Minto in History, Time

One of my Thanksgiving break projects is to finish a paper comparing the views of Maimonides and Averroes on the relation of the truths of faith and philosophy. To that end, I’m reading the fabulous new biography of Maimonides by Joel Kraemer: Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds.
One of Maimonides [...]

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