¿Fue Maimónides "el Aristóteles judío"?

Abstract

It is a well-known fact the reception of Greek philosophical theories and the subsequent influence of these doctrines among the Jewish, Arabian and late antiquity and medieval Christian thinkers. To many scholars this "Hellenization" would have resulted in a creative "synthesis of reason and faith", to others, however, would have meant an alteration of the original meaning of the Jewish and Christian faith. Nevertheless, more rarely it is made reference to the process of "Judaization" experienced by the Greek thought in its contact with the field of thought of the revealed faith. However, without an adequate consideration of this complex process as a whole it is not possible to describe the originality of the thinkers of the Patristic and Medieval Age properly. About this thorny issue this time we will refer to Maimonides, medieval theologian called "the Jewish Aristotle" by Menendez y Pelayo. We will attempt to analyze wether the Aristotle’s doctrine caused a deformation of the Jewish thought that the Cordovan thinker tried to express, or in his writings the Aristotelianism was revised in a new light born of the revealed faith.