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Medieval · 1288–1344

Who influenced Gersonides?

Influences

Jewish Aristotelian who limited God's knowledge to make room for human freedom.

Gersonides was influenced by Averroes and Maimonides. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Gersonides?

Gersonides, or Levi ben Gershon, known by the Hebrew acronym Ralbag, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer, born at Bagnols in Languedoc.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Gersonides?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Gersonides

The longest documented line of influence ending at Gersonides runs 12 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximander
  3. Pythagoras
  4. Empedocles
  5. Plato
  6. Aristotle
  7. Al-Kindi
  8. Al-Farabi
  9. Avicenna
  10. Avempace
  11. Ibn Tufail
  12. Averroes
  13. Gersonides

Two steps away from Gersonides

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Gersonides

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gersonides, with no direct line between them.

Gersonides by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
25
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
24 — #55 of 58 among medieval philosophers
Card rarity
Common

Questions about Gersonides

Who influenced Gersonides?
Averroes and Maimonides.
Who did Gersonides influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Gersonides.
When did Gersonides live?
1288–1344. The map files Gersonides under the medieval period.
How rare is the Gersonides card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Gersonides in 24 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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