Maimonides

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This paper examines how Maimonides was born Moses Maimon and has been proclaimed as the man who has had the most profound impact on the Jewish faith. It looks at how Maimonides's interpretation of faith was firmly grounded in reason and intellect and how he believed that people who are not trained in philosophy or science might find his arguments intelligible. In particular, it examines how he developed the thirteen articles of Jewish faith that have made an indelible mark on the religion and its followers.

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"Being a student of Aristotle, Maimonides subscribed to his assumption of universal teleology i.e. every person comes into this world with a destiny and reached a natural final state after fulfilling that destiny. He felt that people move in a certain pre-ordained direction from the time of birth and continue their journey till they reach the final state of rest. He used teleology to provide the link between reason and faith and to prove that there existed no real conflict between the two. He took it upon himself to justify intellectually and scientifically the various principles and views prorogated by Jewish thinkers and rabbis."

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