Maimonides · Theology
Maimonides’s radical claim that we can say nothing positive about God’s essence - only what God is <em>not</em> - to guard the divine unity from every human image.
You learned that Maimonides allows only negative attributes of God. Explain why he thought positive attributes are dangerous, and what negation leaves us able to say, in your own words.
Leads to Thomas Aquinas.
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