Moses Maimonides and Judah Halevi on order and law in the world of nature,and beyond |
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Authors: | Y. Tzvi Langermann |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biophysical Microstructures, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland;2. Department of Physics “Aldo Pontremoli” and CIMAINA, Università degli Studi Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy |
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Abstract: | The concept of order, expressed by a number of forms of the Arabic root n.z.m., was of paramount importance in the natural philosophy of medieval Jewish thinkers, far more important than the related concept of law. Moses Maimonides walked a very tight rope between the order that is present in the cosmos, and which testifies to its intelligent Creator, and some minor streaks of apparent disorder, which indicate that the universe is not an eternally self-maintaining entity ruled only by necessity. Judah Halevi was mostly concerned with hierarchical levels of increasing order: a basic orderliness, which describes the cosmos, and a higher level of order, which applies to the Jewish people. |
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Keywords: | Order Creationism Medieval Jewish philosophy Arabic scientific terminology |
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