Reason, scripture, and the limits of language › Primary reading
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- Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed, Michael Friedländer translation, consulted in the Mesora transcription. Use part and chapter numbers because the transcription has typographical and spacing defects.
- Introduction; Part I, chapters 1 and 26: intended readers, language, and bodily imagery.
- Part I, chapters 50–60, especially 54, 58, and 59: attributes, actions, negation, and degrees of understanding.
- Part II, chapters 25, 32, and 35–36: the evidential status of creation and eternity, preparation for prophecy, and the imaginative faculty in the account that excludes Moses's exceptional prophecy.
- Part III, chapters 27, 31, and 54: the law's aims, reasons for commandments, and the relation of intellectual perfection to action. Compare Shlomo Pines's translation when examining technical terms.
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