Book contents
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Form
- Part II Human Beginnings
- Part III The Creator
- Part IV The Created
- Chapter 8 Creation and Miracles in the Guide
- Chapter 9 The Prophetic Method in the Guide
- Chapter 10 Maimonides’ Modalities
- Part V Human Finitude
- Part VI Human Ends
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 9 - The Prophetic Method in the Guide
from Part IV - The Created
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Form
- Part II Human Beginnings
- Part III The Creator
- Part IV The Created
- Chapter 8 Creation and Miracles in the Guide
- Chapter 9 The Prophetic Method in the Guide
- Chapter 10 Maimonides’ Modalities
- Part V Human Finitude
- Part VI Human Ends
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Maimonides’ definition of prophecy is a sophisticated hybrid engineered from the materials of Jewish theology and medieval Arabic philosophy. This essay opens with a brief exploration of the theology, epistemology and cognitive psychology shaping PM, which, together, informs Maimonides’ view that prophecy is a cognitive feat that will naturally be experienced by certain people as a dream or vision. The remainder of the essay seeks to determine the precise point in which Maimonides’ prophet formed the propositional attitude of central importance to epistemologists, namely belief. In so doing, it shall become apparent that in no way can the epistemology of prophecy be reduced to the epistemology of divine testimony, which demonstrates that prophecy, at least in Maimonides’ hands, is fallible and that the distinction between Mosaic and non-Mosaic prophecy is problematic.
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- Maimonides' Guide of the PerplexedA Critical Guide, pp. 161 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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