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Highlights:
Why doesn't Maimonides include a good imagination among the human virtues?
What the imagination does and what makes it good
The definition of prophecy, the human being's highest perfection
Prophets need to have a good imagination
Animals also have an imaginative faculty on a par with humans
What imagination does, and how it is similar to and differs from reason
The imagination can't avoid materialism
Prophecy is not a characteristic inherent to being human
Three opinions about prophecy
Analyzing Maimonides' understanding of prophecy
There are two ways to view man: As intellect alone, or as a composite of intellect and body
The imagination is part of man's perfection only from the perspective of as a composite being comprised of intellect and body as well
Why many wise people didn't become prophets
Those who consider prophecy a characteristic inherent to being human consider man to be a body
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