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	Gersonides
		Gersonides is the philosopher who attempted to show that philosophy and Torah, that reason and revelation are co-extensive; he is a philosophical optimist who believes that reason was fully competent to attain all the important and essential truths.
		Gersonides, however, rejects the metaphysical bite to the distinction, and argues that inasmuch as both spheres contain material elements, what we know about creation is based on astronomy, and astronomy is fundamentally no different a human science than physics.
		Gersonides rejects this notion of conjunction, however, and replaces it with a model of immortality according to which it is the content of knowledge of the acquired intellect that matters.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/gersonides (6292 words)

	Gersonides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Levi ben Gershon ("Levi son of Gerson"), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288-1344), was a famous rabbi, philosopher, mathematician and Talmudic commentator.
		Gersonides was also the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch and other exegetical and scientific works.
		Gersonides posits that people's souls are composed of two parts: a material, or human, intellect; and an acquired, or agent, intellect..
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gersonides (1089 words)

	gersonides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rabbi Levi ben Gerson (Gershon), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288—1344 CE), was a Jewish philosopher and commentator, was born at Bagnols in Languedoc.
		Gersonides posits that people's souls are composed of two parts (a) a material, or human, intellect.
		For Gersonides "Man is immortal in so far as he attains the intellectual perfection that is open to him.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gersonides.html (838 words)

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		Gersonides’ relation to Gershom ben Solomon, author of Sha`ar ha-Shamayim; the identity of the town of Ezov; a reference to the Orsini family in Gersonides; an implicit criticism of flagellation; Gersonides’ rejection of the heliocentric hypothesis.
		The source of Gersonides’ motivation to engage in science and of his great scientific originality is claimed to be his realist image of knowledge, which in turn is a consequence of his theory of the intellect and of the survival of the personal soul.
		Gersonides’ mathematical terminology is shown not to be original, testifying to the existence of a received terminology; this received terminology is shown to be permeated with Arabisms.
	research.haifa.ac.il /~kellner/bibgers.html (9907 words)

	Adventures in Philosophy: A Brief History of Jewish Philosophy
		Born in Bagnols, France, in 1288, Gersonides was a controversial commentator on Aristotelian philosophy, the Bible, and parts of the Talmud.
		Gersonides was of the Averroist school in his interpretations and commentaries on Aristotle.
		Gersonides rejects emanationism and is thus forced to admit the existence of uncreated prime matter.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphiljewish3.htm (2039 words)

	GERSONIDES - LoveToKnow Article on GERSONIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Milhamoth is throughout modelled after the plan of the great work of Jewish philosophy,, the Moreh Nebuhim of Moses Maimonides, and may be regarded as an elaborate criticism from the more philosophical point of view (mainly Averroistic) of the syncretism of Aristotelianism and Jewish orthodoxy as presented in that work.
		A careful analysis of the Milliamotli is given in Rabbi Isidore Weils Philosophie religieuse de Lvi-Ben-Gerson (Paris, 1868).
		The Milizamoth was published in 1560 at Riva di Trento, and has been published at Leipzig, 1866.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GERSONIDES.htm (335 words)

	Gersonides History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gersonides says almost nothing about his personal life, but some scholars have speculated that he may have functioned as a community rabbi, as a banker, or both.
		Given the nature of his writings and where he lived, it is not unreasonable to speculate that in addition to his involvement with the Jewish community, he may have taught astronomy/astrology in the papal university, medical school, or court.
		Gersonides is generally acknowledged to be the greatest and most independent medieval Jewish philosopher after the death of Moses Maimonides (Mosheh ben Maimon, 1135/8–1204).
	www.bookrags.com /history/religion/gersonides-eorl-05 (287 words)

	Gersonides
		By the end of the thirteenth century these commentaries had been translated from Arabic into Hebrew, and Averroes’; thought, as well as that of Aristotle, was being integrated into the mainstream of Jewish philosophy.
		Gersonides was dissatisfied with Maimonides’; discussion and proposed to reopen the issue.
		Augustine’s attack in City of God; Maimonides’; letters) on the grounds that astrology compromised human free will; on the other hand, the wide scale acceptance of astrology from the 12th century on.
	setis.library.usyd.edu.au /stanford/archives/spr2002/entries/gersonides (6269 words)

	Gersonides
		Platonic Themes in Gersonides’ Doctrine of the Active Intellect, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, Studies in Neoplatonism v.
		Manekin, Charles H. Problems of Plenitude in Maimonides and Gersonides, A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Essays in Honor of Arthur Hyman, edited by Ruth Link-Salinger, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, 1988: 183-194.
		Wolfson, Harry A. Maimonides and Gersonides on Divine Attributes as Ambiguous Terms, Mordecai Maimônides Kaplan Jubilee Volume (english section), The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, 1953: 515-530.
	paginas.terra.com.br /arte/casadasabedoria/filjud/autores/gersonides.htm (234 words)

	Gersonides (from Judaism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom), another 14th-century Jewish philosopher born in the south of France, wrote the systematic philosophical work Sefer milhamot Adonai (“The Book of the Wars of the Lord”) as well as many philosophical commentaries.
		Gersonides apparently never explicitly mentioned Christian Scholastic philosophers; he cited Greek, Arabic, and Jewish thinkers…
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	Mail-Jewish Volume 35 Number 48
		Moreover, Gersonides believed that positive predicates could be applied to God literally because their primary meaning is derived from their application to God, while their human meaning is secondary.
		But - Gersonides rejects the idea that God is omnipotent; he views this claim as literally nonsensical.
		As such, Gersonides states that whens omeone states that God is omnipotent, it only makes sense for one to say that God has all the power that a being can logically have.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v35/mj_v35i48.html (1250 words)

	Prof. Sara Klein-Braslavy
		Gersonides: Gersonides' Theory of the Intellect; Gersonides' Theory of Knowledge and the Immortality of the Intellect; Foreknowledge and Prophecy in Gersonides' Thought; Gersonides and his Predecessors on God's Knowledge of the Particulars; Gersonides' Theory of Providence and his Interpretation of the Book of Job; Gersonides on the Creation of the World; Gersonides' Theory of Miracles.
		'Gersonides on the Mode of Communicating Knowledge of the Future to the Dreamer and Clairvoyant', Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism A. Ivry, E. Wolfson & A. Arksuh (eds.), Harwood academic publishers: Amsterdam 1998, pp.
		'Gersonides' Methods of Inquiry in the Discussion on the Material Intellect in the Wars of the Lord', 11th International Congress of the SIEPM on "Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy " (Porto 26-31 August 2002), Berpols (Turnhout), 2004.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/jewish_philosophy/segel/sklein-eng.html (1034 words)

	Search Results for Gersonides - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom), another 14th-century Jewish philosopher born in the south of France, wrote the systematic philosophical work Sefer milh(“The Book of the Wars of the Lord”) as well as...
		Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (1340–1410), a Spanish-Jewish thinker, like Gersonides had thorough knowledge of Jewish philosophy and partial knowledge of Islamic philosophy, and both seem to have been...
		The increased sense of linguistic and national identity and the religious movements of the 5th and 6th centuries such as Nestorianism (a heterodox doctrine that so stressed the distinction between...
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		The view that God doesn't have foreknowledge of moral decisions which was advanced by ibn Daud and Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom) isn't quite as isolated as Rabbi Bleich indicates, and it enjoys the support of two highly respected Ahronim, Rabbi Yeshayahu Horowitz (Shelah haKadosh) and Rabbi Haim ibn Atar (Or haHayim haKadosh).
		The former takes the views that God cannot know which moral choices people will make, but this doesn't impair His perfection.
		Detailed bibliography of works on and by Gersonides (http://research.haifa.ac.il/~kellner/bibgers.html)
	www.factbase.info /ge/gersonides.html (772 words)

	Gersonides
		Bibliographia Gersonideana - Annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources on this medieval Jewish thinker, compiled by Menachem Kellner.
		FOLDOC: Gersonides Levi ben Gershom - Brief entry and recommended reading from this philosophical database.
		Gersonides - Article by Tamar Rudovsky from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
	www.supercrawler.com /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/G/Gersonides (122 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Gadamer-Geulincx
		Following the leads of Maimonides and Ibn Rushd, Gersonides maintained that truths of reason cannot conflict with revealed religion.
		He denied the possibility of creation ex nihilo, supposing instead that matter is eternal.
		On Gersonides view, however, genuine human freedom is possible because the omniscience of god extends only to knowledge of universals.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/g.htm (948 words)

	Sir Isaaac Wolfson
		Index of Modern Editors of Gersonides in Section I
		Index of Modern Translators of Gersonides in Section II
		Index of Authors of Studies on Gersonides in Sections III-IX
	hcc.haifa.ac.il /Chairs/Wolfson/bibliographia.htm (360 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spinoza
		He read and despised the Cabalists; yet traces of their influence are recognizable in his philosophy; mention should here be particularly made of the book called "Zohar" and of Herrera's work "Porta cœli".
		He studied industriously the Jewish writers on the philosophy of religion, especially Maimonides, Gersonides, Chasdai Kreskas, and Ibn Esra, and later adopted much from them.
		The writings of the Arabian philosopher Al Farabi and of his commentator Ismail show striking similarities, even in the smallest details, with the later system of Spinoza.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14217a.htm (3513 words)

	Gersonides
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		Additional Information: Gersonides (Levi ben Gershon, Levi ben Gerson, Levi ben Gershom, Gershuni), 1288-1344.
		French Jewish philosopher, a follower of This page was last updated on July 26th, 2005
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	Benedict De Spinoza [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Spinoza may have attended such meetings as early as the first half of the 1650's, and it is most likely here that he received his first exposure to Cartesian thought.
		This is not to say that Spinoza ceased to mine the resources of his own tradition - he became steeped, for example, in the writings of such philosophically important figures as Maimonides and Gersonides - but his intellectual horizons were expanding and he was experiencing a restlessness that drove him to look further afield.
		It was at this time that he placed himself under the tutelage of an ex-Jesuit, Franciscus Van den Enden, who had recently set up a Latin school in Amsterdam.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/spinoza.htm (10542 words)

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