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Maimonides

Maimonides advocates law disciplined by reason, arguing that obedience is ennobling only when it educates conscience rather than enforces submission. Like Averroes, he considered philosophy and religion to be harmonious, not contradictory. By reconciling revelation with rational inquiry and codifying law to restrain arbitrariness, he advances a durable principle for free societies: authority is legitimate only when it teaches responsibility and self-government.