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1. Kalam 1. Kalam
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2. Aristotle 2. Aristotle
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3. The Commentators on Aristotle 3. The Commentators on Aristotle
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4. Other Greek Philosophers 4. Other Greek Philosophers
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5. The Arabic Philosophers 5. The Arabic Philosophers
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6. Medieval Jewish Thinkers 6. Medieval Jewish Thinkers
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7. Summary 7. Summary
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Five Maimonides’ Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Later Period
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Published:April 2011
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Abstract
This chapter examines the extent to which the evidence bears out the expectation that Maimonides has developed a greater familiarity with philosophical literature in his later years. It begins with the Kalam and then proceeds to Aristotle, the Greek commentators on Aristotle, other Greek philosophers, the Arabic philosophers, and medieval Jewish philosophers. In the period of Maimonides' activity examined in this chapter, he discloses no consciousness of a Neoplatonic school of philosophy and reveals no familiarity with the paraphrases of Plotinus and Proclus that were available in Arabic, or of medieval writings that might be characterized as Neoplatonic. He had some familiarity with the Kalam school, and he knew only part of the available Aristotelian corpus, which he eked out with what he learned from the Arabic Aristotelians and other sources. He also knew and used a number of Alfarabi's writings and he knew a few of Ibn Bājja's. Finally, the precise extent of his knowledge of medieval Jewish philosophy cannot be determined.
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