Frankel, Steven:
Spinoza's Response to Maimonides : A Practical Strategy for Resolving the Tension Between Reason and Revelation

In: The Philosophical Quarterly 45, 3 (2005), 309-325

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Comparison of theories, Spinoza and Judaism / Jewish philosophy
Subject (individuals): Maimonides, Moses

English commentary: "Spinoza resolves the tension between reason and revelation by granting reason complete authority and autonomy in all philosophical and natural matters, and by denying revelation any claims to knowledge. Despite this dramatic partisanship, he attempts to make this solution attractive to believers by creating a hermeneutic that allows a limited claim to knowledge for revelation. This article attempts to explain how he arrived at this strategy and why he believed it would succeed." (abstract)

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