Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed

Medieval Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain, The Problem of Evil in Judaism

Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) was a rabbi, theologian, and physician, considered by many to be the greatest medieval Jewish thinker. Guide for the Perplexed addresses the conflicts between Judaism and the scientific and philosophic thought of the day, seeking to find a concord between the Old Testament, Aristotelian philosophy, and observable physical reality. In the excerpt below, […]

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