ʿmdt hrmv"m khlfy myṿn hmtsṿṿt l"shmʿyṿt" ṿ"shkhlyṿt" / Maimonides' Philosophical Division of the Laws
עמדת הרמב"ם כלפי מיון המצוות ל"שמעיות" ו"שכליות" / Maimonides' Philosophical Division of the Laws
Several Jewish philosophers used the Mutakallimun's division of the laws into rational (שכליות) and revealed (שמעיות). Maimonides probably opposed this distinction, when he said: "Some of our later sages who were infected with the unsound principles of the Mutakallimun called these rationa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Hebrew |
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1986
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Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 1985, Volume: 56, Pages: 1-9 |
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| Summary: | Several Jewish philosophers used the Mutakallimun's division of the laws into rational (שכליות) and revealed (שמעיות). Maimonides probably opposed this distinction, when he said: "Some of our later sages who were infected with the unsound principles of the Mutakallimun called these rational laws." The question arises what was Maimonides' own conception as to the appropriate division of the laws. We argue that Maimonides adhered to a tripartite division of the laws into intellectual, common and traditional (מקובלות, מפורסמות, מושכלות). As evidence for our proposal we use Maimonides' discussion of the Commandments in the Guide of the Perplexed, as well as Ibn Daud's suggestion that there is a strict correspondence between the notions of common (מפורסמות) and traditional (מקובלות) on the one hand, and rational (שכליות) and revealed (שמעיות) on the other. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual
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