Editing Maimonides (section)

===Maimonides and the Modernists===
[[File:Maimonides, at Rambam Medical Center (square).jpg|thumb |left|Plaque of Maimonides at Rambam Medical Center, [[Haifa]]]]
Maimonides remains one of the most widely debated Jewish thinkers among modern scholars. He has been adopted as a symbol and an intellectual hero by almost all major movements in modern Judaism, and has proven important to philosophers such as [[Leo Strauss]]; and his views on the importance of [[humility]] have been taken up by modern [[humanism|humanist]] philosophers.
In academia, particularly within the area of Jewish Studies, the teaching of Maimonides has been dominated by traditional scholars, generally Orthodox, who place a very strong emphasis on Maimonides as a rationalist; one result is that certain sides of Maimonides' thought, including his opposition to [[anthropocentrism]], have been obviated.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}} There are movements in some postmodern circles to claim Maimonides for other purposes, as within the discourse of [[ecotheology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neohasid.org/torah/rambam/|title=NeoHasid.org &#124; Rambam and Gaia|website=neohasid.org|access-date=11 December 2013|archive-date=8 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208213823/http://www.neohasid.org/torah/rambam/|url-status=live}}</ref> Maimonides' reconciliation of the philosophical and the traditional has given his legacy an extremely diverse and dynamic quality.