Philosopher
Gersonides
Overview
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.
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Philosophers who discussed Gersonides
Ideas Gersonides discusses
- Greek language
- Hebrew language
- Philosophy
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Johannes Kepler
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Jewish philosophy
- Latin
- Mathematics
- Middle Ages
- Mathematician
- Maimonides
- Heresy
- Astrology
- Omniscience
- Abraham ibn Daud
- Medical doctor
- Neoplatonism
- Medieval philosophy
- Syncretism
- Theology
- Aristotle
- Aristotelianism
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Place in the tradition
Part of Averroism.