Aquinas and Maimonides on the Possibility of the Knowledge of God

An Examination of The Quaestio de attributis

By: Mercedes Rubio

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Purpose Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides' writings. While Maimonides asserts that "its purpose is to give indications to a religious man for whom the validity of our Law has become 1 established in his soul and has become actual in his belief," one of its early opponents, Meshullam ben Solomon, writes referring to him: "Those who deny the proper attributes of God speak out 2 until faith has been drained out of man." He will instead claim to be "determined to know the God of my fathers and my 3 thoughts are continuously of Him". Meshullam understands that despite Maimonides' interest in preserving his readers' faith, he leads them to skepticism by denying the possibility of any positive knowledge of the essence of God.

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Aus den Rezensionen: "... Ausgehend von der ... 'Quaestio de attributis' ... zeichnet Rubio ... die thomasische Rezeption der maimonidischen Attributenlehre nach. Ihre Grundpramisse ist, dass Thomas ... Mitte der 1260er Jahre ... sich erneut mit Maimonides beschaftigt hat und sich in der vorliegenden Quastio die vollendetste Form der Auseinandersetzung mit Maimonides finde, die ihrerseits in anderen Werken des Aquinaten nachhalle. Diese These stutzt sie durch eine recht sorgfaltige und quellennahe Analyse sowohl von Thomas aIs auch ... von Malmonides' Fuhrer der Unschlussigen ... Das Buch bietet ... eine solide Textanalyse ..." (Gorge K. Hasselhoff, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2008, Vol. 115, Issue 1, S. 195)

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Introduction	p. 1
Purpose	p. 1
The Texts	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 13
The Dispute on the Divine Attributes	p. 15
Chronology of In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, a. 3	p. 16
The Reasons for the Dispute	p. 28
Aquinas' In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1	p. 28
Tarantasia's Commentary and Aquinas' Responsio de 108 articulis	p. 34
Aquinas' Revision of In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1	p. 44
Aquinas' In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, a. 3 (Quaestio de attributis)	p. 45
The Roman Commentary on the Sentences	p. 55
Maimonides' Place in the Dispute	p. 63
Aquinas and Maimonides on the Divine Names	p. 65
Maimonides' Position According to the Commentary on the Sentences and De Potentia	p. 66
"Being" as the Proper Name of God	p. 67
The Multiplicity of the Divine Names	p. 73
Maimonides' Position According to the Quaestio de attributis	p. 89
The Multiplicity of the Divine Names	p. 89
"Being" as the Proper Name of God	p. 110
Maimonides' Position According to S. Theologiae I, q. 13	p. 123
The Quaestio de Attributis and Zechariah 14, 9	p. 127
The Apprehension of the Divine Essence	p. 128
Zechariah 14, 9 in the Guide of the Perplexed	p. 128
Zechariah 14, 9 in the Works of Aquinas	p. 133
The Stages of the Intellect	p. 140
Aquinas' Distinction "in via/in patria"	p. 140
Maimonides' Distinction "In this world/In the next"	p. 151
The Quaestio de Attributis and the Limits of Natural Knowledge	p. 161
The Five Causes That Prevent the Instruction of the Multitude	p. 162
The Five Causes in The Guide of the Perplexed	p. 162
The Five Causes in Aquinas' Works	p. 169
Maimonides and Aquinas on the Role of Faith and Prophecy	p. 193
The Knowledge of the Existence of God	p. 210
The Philosophical Questions That Have No Answer	p. 211
Maimonides' Guide II, 17	p. 212
Guide II, 17 in the Works of Aquinas	p. 214
The Knowledge of the Existence of God	p. 218
Maimonides' Method for Demonstrating the Existence of God	p. 219
Aquinas' Method for Demonstrating the Existence of God	p. 227
Maimonides' Place in Aquinas' Five Ways	p. 238
Conclusions	p. 245
Chronology of the Works of T. Aquinas Examined	p. 249
Quaestio de attributis. Text with English Translation	p. 250
Critical editions of
Dux Neutrorum I, 33 (Guide I, 34)
Dux Neutrorum II, 1 (Guide II, Intro.)
Dux Neutrorum II, 2 (Guide II, 1)
Dux Neutrorum II, 17 (Guide II, 18)	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 318
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