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  • Chapter 5 - The Scope of Metaphysics

  • from Part III - The Creator
  • Edited by Daniel Frank, Purdue University, Indiana, Aaron Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book:
    Maimonides' <I>Guide of the Perplexed</I>
    Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 83-101

  • Summary

    Maimonides makes extensive use of metaphysics in the Guide, but he does not discuss the discipline’s nature or many of the basic issues it addresses. Instead, the Guide’s readers would need to be familiar with the tradition of metaphysical inquiry that Maimonides draws on, which is that of the peripatetic philosophers. Aristotle’s Metaphysics stands at its head, and Maimonides received it mediated through Greek and Arabic commentaries. Among the major Arabic commentators, Al-Farabi is known as “the second teacher,” after Aristotle; the titles are accorded them by Avicenna, who credits Al-Farabi with enabling him to understand the Metaphysics.