Moses Maimonides e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Swith, and many attempts toward their reconciliation with the content of Judaism were undertaken. Maimoni des, who surpassed all his predecessors in ability and learning, surpassed them all in his results. He made the whole spiritual wealth of the period his own possession. In the field both of Jew ish learning and of non-jewish thought he brought the attempts to perfection. He was a greater scholar, a greater philosopher than all his predecessors, but the feature that distinguishes him from all others and constitutes his ex ceptionability is that, differing from all of them, he undertook with perfect consciousness the task to utilize learne ing and thought for life. We are ac customed in our days to boast of being in possession of a pure science, an un conditioned philosophy, both indepen dent of time and space and taking no regard to the interests of lify.