Guiding the Perplexed
Rambam describes various opinions regarding God's providence. In this lecture we cover the first three approaches.
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Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 102: Part 3 Chapter 17c
Rambam describes his opinion regarding God's providence. Providence is for humans only as it works through our intellect and only humans have intellect.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 101: Part 3 Chapter 17b
Rambam describes the fourth and fifth possible understandings of how God's providence works, the fifth one being the simple meaning of the Torah. He reviews the flaws of all the possibilities, and leads us toward his own understanding of God's providence, which he will describe next.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 100: Part 3 Chapter 17a
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 99: Part 3 Chapter 16
Rambam begins his discussion of the difficult question of theodicy by describing what led many philosophers to conclude that God doesn't know what is happening in His universe.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 98: Part 3 Chapters 14 & 15
In chapter 14, Rambam describes why it is unreasonable to think that God created the world for the sake of human beings, as we are but a tiny speck within the vast universe. He also explains that the sages were only competent in scientific matters according to their time. In 15 Rambam describes why God cannot do the impossible.
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