TY - BOOK
T1 - Maimonides on the origin of the world
AU - Seeskin, Kenneth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Kenneth Seeskin 2005 and Cambridge University Press, 2010.
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - Although Maimonides' discussion of creation is one of his greatest contributions - he himself claims that belief in creation is second in importance only to belief in God - there is still considerable debate on what that contribution was. Kenneth Seeskin takes a close look at the problems Maimonides faced and the sources from which he drew. He argues that Maimonides meant exactly what he said: the world was created by a free act of God so that the existence of everything other than God is contingent. In religious terms, existence is a gift. In order to reach this conclusion, Seeskin examines Maimonides' view of God, miracles, the limits of human knowledge, and the claims of astronomy to be a science. Clearly written and closely argued, Maimonides on the Origin of the World takes up questions of perennial interest.
AB - Although Maimonides' discussion of creation is one of his greatest contributions - he himself claims that belief in creation is second in importance only to belief in God - there is still considerable debate on what that contribution was. Kenneth Seeskin takes a close look at the problems Maimonides faced and the sources from which he drew. He argues that Maimonides meant exactly what he said: the world was created by a free act of God so that the existence of everything other than God is contingent. In religious terms, existence is a gift. In order to reach this conclusion, Seeskin examines Maimonides' view of God, miracles, the limits of human knowledge, and the claims of astronomy to be a science. Clearly written and closely argued, Maimonides on the Origin of the World takes up questions of perennial interest.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926110524&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84926110524&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/CBO9780511614620
DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511614620
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84926110524
SN - 052184553x
SN - 9780521845533
BT - Maimonides on the origin of the world
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -