By Sara Klein-Braslavy
GersonidesRabbi Levi ben Gershom (Provence, 12881344)was a multifaceted philosopher. Endowed along with his unique and important brain, he didn't settle for the authority of his predecessors yet investigated each subject for himself. His amazing consciousness to methodboth of inquiry and of writingstands out essentially in his personal paintings and in his analyzing of definite biblical books. The 8 articles on Gersonides concept and technique gathered during this quantity handle 4 major subject matters: Gersonides tools of inquiry and composition; using introductions in his personal works and in biblical books; his procedure within the supercommentaries on Averroes; and his equipment of biblical exegesis.
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Even when he does introduce the logically possible answers to a question, they are subordinated to the philosophically tenable answers. For Gersonides the totality of the logical possibilities is the totality of the logical possibilities that are compatible with the principles of Aristotelian philosophy and with his own philosophy. As we have seen, for example, Epicurus’ opinion about providence—there is no providence whatsoever in the sublunar world, which is the antithesis of all the other views that maintain that there is providence in the sublunar world, and hence is a logical possibility and not merely a historical opinion—is excluded from consideration because Gersonides begins his discussion of this question from the assumption (which, as noted, he understands to be Aristotle’s) that there is providence over species in the sublunar world.
Aristotelian philosophy allows two possible answers to this question: the intellect may survive by apprehension of the separate intellects; or it may survive by apprehension of the intelligibles of the sensible objects in the sublunar world. Consequently here Gersonides offers three opinions about the immortality of the intellect, which he matches with the corresponding 107 Wars, p. 51 / 1:170. 38 the opinions that produce the aporias historical views. 109 Gersonides’ preference for a classification of the opinions by the possible logical and logico-philosophical answers to the question at hand is especially prominent in his discussion of the essence of the material intellect.
14. 77 Even though, according to his commentary on Job 7, under “The General Principle to be Learned from the Text” (p. 10a/ p. 2, where, after presenting the friends views he adds, “It is clear that many statements of our rabbis agree with one or another of these opinions, as they are understood. But this is not the place to mention all these statements, lest it make our discussion longer than it should be” (p. 155 / 2:161–162). ” 78 Like Maimonides before him, he too ascribes Aristotle’s opinion to Job.