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We have now gone through Bahya's philosophical chapter giving us the metaphysical basis of his ethico-religious views.
Here the worship of the appetites is brought into competition and rivalry with devotion to the one God. Our object being to trace the philosophical conceptions in mediæval Jewish literature, we cannot linger long in the study of the rest of Bahya's masterpiece, which is homiletical and practical rather than theoretic, and must content ourselves with a very brief résumé of its principal contents.
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