The Guide Of The Perplexed By Maimonides

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The Guide of the Perplexed The Guide of the Perplexed was written by Maimonides, and it consists of three books. The first one is talked about God and deals with the nature of the God. He made real argument about God, and people’s thought about him. In his book, he could not describe God in positive way. The second book was talking about the philosophy. He examine Aristotle’s thought about creativity of the world. Aristotle’s system explained the theory about the providence and those creativity whom he created like universe, angels, and prophesiers. In the last book, he explained mystical theory about traditional prohibition of the law and the evolution of philosophy. These three books generally talk about the creation of people and the universe. …show more content…

The first kind of evil is matter which is cause to people, and it is a special part from all human body. For example, death an evil for human life even though it is reality and all human should be death in the part of their life. Also, it is important for some people to die, so we can say it is necessary evil in human life even if they have fear about it. Furthermore, the evil may be part of our natural changes. For instance, change in elements around us make affect the changes of our body or our environment, such as change in air, sky, or in our blood pressure. Some of them may be useful or harmful for human body, but they are reality of life, and we cannot put them away from our life style. The most perfect creative in this universe is creating human being, and the nature of human is well known that they living, responsible, and die, but it is reality and we cannot avoid it. The evils of the second kind are those people who harm and cause evils to each other. People cause harm to each other, and use their powers to against others. Those classes of evils are very common and numerous in human life. It is not just in special part, but it spreads around the world. For instance war is the rare and common one of this kinds of evil that harm so many people, and it kills lots of innocent people. It is rare occurrence that people make plans to kill their brothers or their …show more content…

Also, they all return back to those times that the Prophets came. The first theory said that there is no providence at all around the universe for anything. All universe built by chance and accidents, and no one create it. It is the view of Epicurus, and until know, it was provided by some Jewish people. Aristotle proved this theory, and he said that the universe may be happen by chance, and no one create it, but all those accidents that was happen in it make the universe changed by specific period. The second theory said that the universe is made of two parts, and this theory belongs to Aristotle. He explained his theory by said that the first part of the universe was created by providence and the other part was created by chance. God was create the part of the universe under the ruling of the ruler and powerful people. The third theory is comes from the second one, and it says that there is nothing in the universe, and all classes and individuals created by chance. Everything comes from willing of people for having things in their lives. Alshariah improved this theory by said that Aristotle may be true that chance help to create some parts of the world, but the God will always aware about everything that will happen in the universe. All things will happen by the will of the God. God sent Prophets to the universe to make people have clear image about God and