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The Search For God In Eight Ch - Online Term Paper

The Search For God In Eight Ch

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In Eight Chapters by Maimonides, there seems to be a lot of confusion when dealing with the existence of God and man's perception of him. Maimonides was trying to provide a strong basis for the belief that God was above man, but instead he only succeeds in stating obvious facts that fail to show a complete understanding of the subject.
Maimonides does admit to the fact that metaphysics has yet to correctly identify exactly what God is. Are God and knowledge one? Maimonides espouses that metaphysics has already explained the fact that God, "does not know by means of knowledge nor is he alive by means of life, such that he and knowledge are two different things, like man and his ...

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even try to imagine a God so great that he is incomprehensible, and it seems to me that this would not, or should not be the God embraced and praised in Christianity. Why would it be that we were created in God's image, and yet were are so below him that nothing about him is comprehensible to us? In all his supreme power, why would he create us with such meager minds and bodies? It seems that this supreme being that Maimonides has envisioned in order to support the fact that God is beyond comprehension is more than just mysterious. Maimonides fails to address any type of these arguments, and merely says that this proof is sufficient for the "common people".
Another important aspect of Maimonides arguments, was his view on the existence of God, or more accurately, our ability to perceive him. Once again Maimonides weakly defends his position by explaining that this "is due to the perfection of His existence and the deficiency of our intellects"(95). It would seem top me that a ...

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Added: 5/11/2005 04:28:03 PM
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