Reading Maimonides in Beirut…

Made in Afghanistan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

Today in Beirut, my students and I discussed the “Guide for the Perplexed” by Maimonides, and noted the profound influence of Maimonides’ writings on St. Thomas Aquinas

Since it is a well-known fact that even that knowledge of God which is accessible to man cannot be attained except by negations, and that negations do not convey a true idea of the being to which they refer, all people, both of past and present generations, declared that God cannot be the object of human comprehension, that none but Himself comprehends what He is, and that our knowledge consists in knowing that we are unable truly to comprehend Him…

— Maimonides

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