Rambam and Platonism
Hello Rabbi, after reading on this important website for some time, I wanted to ask you about morality and commandments.
I understand that you advocate Platonism and therefore believe that there are objective values that obligate us. As a result, it seems that you also interpret the commandments as legality, something like Leibowitz's claim, if I understood correctly. Do you also interpret from this whole perception that the Rambam represents Platonism?
I say these things mainly with regard to the last column on Maimonides and famousness. The division of famousness and intelligence contradicts the division of Shemaiah and intelligence. There should not be Shemaiah, if it is intelligent it is true in any case and if it is famous it will always be relative. You want to make the excuse that there is always a moral principle that guides famousness. Why don't you simply define it as relativism? And in general, why is there value in famousness in relation to intelligence? It seems to me that comparing two things that are not of the same kind.
In any case, I wasn't asking specifically about Maimonides, but about your method. Regarding Maimonides, I don't have a good enough excuse for him to say that there are Shema's and Sha'li's, except to say that your explanation is the simple explanation, but deep down there really aren't any secrets at all because these values are constantly changing.
I would be happy if you could also direct me to somewhere in your books where you wrote about this view of yours (mitzvot, famous, etc.) in detail.
Thank you, Matan
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