Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) was a 12th-century Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, and physician who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish law and theology.
In the Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides argued that apparent conflicts between Aristotelian philosophy and Scripture arise from misreading; God's attributes can only be spoken negatively (via negativa), and the intellectually perfected person's ultimate goal is knowledge of God through philosophical contemplation.
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