Machine generated contents note: 1. The Study of Philosophy as a Religious Obligation
2. The First Two Positive Divine Commandments
1. The 613 Commandments
2. Four Writers on the Commandments Prior to Maimonides
3. Maimonides
4. What Followed
3. Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Rabbinic Period
1. Background
2. Neoplatonism
3. Kalam
4. Aristotle
5. The Arabic Aristotelians
6. Summary
4. Maimonides' Shemonah perakim and Alfarabi's Fusul Muntaza'a
5. Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Later Period
1. Kalam
2. Aristotle
3. The Commentators on Aristotle
4. Other Greek Philosophers
5. The Arabic Philosophers
6. Medieval Jewish Thinkers
7. Summary
6. Maimonides on Metaphysical Knowledge
1. Introduction
2. Alfarabi's Lost Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics

3. Ibn Bajja's Position on Metaphysical Knowledge
4. The Moreh nevukhim on Metaphysical Knowledge
5. The Active Intellect as the Form that the Human Intellect Thinks; Conjunction with the Active Intellect
6. The Manner Whereby Metaphysical Knowledge Can Be Acquired
7. Summary
7. A Problematic Sentence in Moreh nevukhim, ii. 24
1. The Setting
2. The Problematic Sentence
3. Ibn Tibbon's Emendation
4. Other Proposed Solutions
5. The Solution
8. Maimonides' Ethical Systems
1. Commentary on the Mishnab; Shemonah perakim
2. The Mishneb torah
3. Moreh nevukhim
4. Possible Explanations
5. The Closing Paragraphs of the Moreh nevukhim
6. Summary
9. Maimonides the Rationalist
1. Rationalist Exegesis of Scripture
2. Rationalist Exegesis of Aggadah
3. Rationalism and Halakhah
4. Monotheism and History
5. Intellectual Worship of God.