Maimonides vs. Aristotle

[Cypress]

Well, Aristotle never said God is transcendent. Almost the opposite.

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[Cypress]

It's just my contribution to improve the forum.

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One thing I zero in on is that Einstein originally believed in an unchanging, eternal universe like Aristotle did -- simply because it seemed more pleasing and satisfactory from a philosophical perspective.

The lesson is you cannot remove metaphysics and philosophy even from Science. Science isn't just pure reason and pure data. Metaphysics and philosophizing creeps into science despite our best attempts to assume humans can be perfected as beings of pure reason

Einstein had such a strong metaphysical belief in an eternal, unchanging universe that he actually originally ignored what the Mathematics of his own general relativity theory were telling him, and added a cosmological constant fundge factor to the equation to force the universe to remain static.

Moral of the story, no human is a perfectly rational being capable of strictly operating on pure reason and data.