pseudo-pythagorean

Updated: May 28, 2025

The important addition in Bahya is his distinction between God's unity and other unities, which is not found so strictly formulated in any of his predecessors, and goes back to Pseudo-Pythagorean sources in Arabian literature of Neo-Platonic origin. In order to prove that there is a creator who created the world out of nothing we assume three principles. First, nothing can make itself.

Isaac Husik - A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy