Abstract
Criticism of authority was a prominent feature of medieval philosophical writing. In this study the critiques of two contemporaneous scholars, Moses Maimonides and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, are compared. Maimonides criticized Hellenistic authorities, mainly Aristotle. However, the starting point for his critique was Aristotle's admission of the limitations of his own inquiries. Maimonides admired Aristotle's questioning of his own.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 255-274 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Early Science and Medicine |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
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