Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries, 2020
By: Ofer Elior (Ed.), Gad Freudenthal (Ed.), David Wirmer (Ed.)
Title Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2020
Publication Place Leiden, Boston
Publisher Brill
Series Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Volume 62
Categories Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer
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Translator(s)
Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism.

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Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings, 2011
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2011
Published in La lumière de l'intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps. Actes du IVe colloque international de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques). Cordoue, 9–12 décembre 1998
Pages 319–328
Categories Natural Philosophy, Psychology
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
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The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. Celestial Influences on the Sublunary World in Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Averroes, 2009
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. Celestial Influences on the Sublunary World in Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Averroes
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2009
Published in New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo
Pages 239–281
Categories Cosmology, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
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The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Averroes, 2006
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Averroes
Type Article
Language English
Date 2006
Journal Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph
Volume 59
Pages 29–68
Categories Cosmology, Alexander of Aphrodisias
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
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The Medieval Astrologization of Aristotle's Biology. Averroes on the Role of the Celestial Bodies in the Generation of Animate Beings, 2002
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of Aristotle's Biology. Averroes on the Role of the Celestial Bodies in the Generation of Animate Beings
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 12
Pages 111–37
Categories Natural Philosophy
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
How do the variegated forms of sublunar substances (the elements, homoeomerous substances, plants, animals) arise in prime matter? Averroes throughout his life believed that “a principle from without” was involved, but changed his mind over its identity. While in an early period of his life he maintained that all forms emanate from the active intellect, he later discarded that metaphysical notion and sought to develop a more naturalistic, astrologically inspired account, which identified the heavenly bodies as the source of sublunar forms. Comparing different versions of Averroean texts, this paper seeks to spell out how, in Averroes' view, the heavenly bodies generate forms in matter. Averroes claims that this is brought about by means of their “heats,” an answer that is however problematic seeing that in the Aristotelian cosmology the celestial realm is quality-less. The paper examines Averroes' ideas on the relationship between light and heat, concluding that the Commentator was unable to integrate the postulate that the heavenly bodies inform matter within his Aristotelian theory of matter.

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Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings, 2011
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2011
Published in La lumière de l'intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps. Actes du IVe colloque international de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques). Cordoue, 9–12 décembre 1998
Pages 319–328
Categories Natural Philosophy, Psychology
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
Publisher(s)
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Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries, 2020
By: Ofer Elior (Ed.), Gad Freudenthal (Ed.), David Wirmer (Ed.)
Title Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2020
Publication Place Leiden, Boston
Publisher Brill
Series Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Volume 62
Categories Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism.

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The Medieval Astrologization of Aristotle's Biology. Averroes on the Role of the Celestial Bodies in the Generation of Animate Beings, 2002
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of Aristotle's Biology. Averroes on the Role of the Celestial Bodies in the Generation of Animate Beings
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 12
Pages 111–37
Categories Natural Philosophy
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
Publisher(s)
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How do the variegated forms of sublunar substances (the elements, homoeomerous substances, plants, animals) arise in prime matter? Averroes throughout his life believed that “a principle from without” was involved, but changed his mind over its identity. While in an early period of his life he maintained that all forms emanate from the active intellect, he later discarded that metaphysical notion and sought to develop a more naturalistic, astrologically inspired account, which identified the heavenly bodies as the source of sublunar forms. Comparing different versions of Averroean texts, this paper seeks to spell out how, in Averroes' view, the heavenly bodies generate forms in matter. Averroes claims that this is brought about by means of their “heats,” an answer that is however problematic seeing that in the Aristotelian cosmology the celestial realm is quality-less. The paper examines Averroes' ideas on the relationship between light and heat, concluding that the Commentator was unable to integrate the postulate that the heavenly bodies inform matter within his Aristotelian theory of matter.

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The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. Celestial Influences on the Sublunary World in Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Averroes, 2009
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. Celestial Influences on the Sublunary World in Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Averroes
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2009
Published in New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo
Pages 239–281
Categories Cosmology, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
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The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Averroes, 2006
By: Gad Freudenthal
Title The Medieval Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos. From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Averroes
Type Article
Language English
Date 2006
Journal Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph
Volume 59
Pages 29–68
Categories Cosmology, Alexander of Aphrodisias
Author(s) Gad Freudenthal
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