Maimonides on the Eternity of the World

Abstract

Maimonides’ stance on the creation of the world has attracted considerable debate over the centuries. Those who arrived at the conclusion that Maimonides maintains an essentially Aristotelian picture of divine governance of the world, and presents an esoteric position on all the theological issues in which God is regarded as playing a personal role in human affairs, could hardly take Maimonides’ defense of creation at