[Avodah] sun and moon

[Zev Sero]

On 26/08/2011 1:16 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> But the Rambam tells us his theoretical basis, and it's Aristo's impetus
> theory. Dismissed science.

Where does he tell us this?  I don't see it anywhere.  If his only reason
were Aristotelian physics then they would not have to be intelligent;
they would only need whatever it is that Aristotle thought an animal
needed in order to move itself.  There was certainly no cause to conclude
that the celestial bodies are more intelligent than people, and only a
bit less than angels!

And in fact there is no connection between his belief that the tzeva
hashamayim are intelligent and the need for a motive force to keep them
moving; on the contrary, he uses that argument to prove Hashem's existence
in the first place.  It's Hashem, he says, that keeps the galgal moving;
not the galgal itself.  Asserting intelligence on the part of the galgal
tends to undermine his argument rather than support it. Therefore he must
have had a completely different reason for asserting that it's intelligent.

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