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June 4, 2026Ancient Philosophy Today

Between Sense and Intellect, Abstraction and Emanation: Gersonides on Posterior Analytics 2.19 and the Acquisition of First Principles in His Writings

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Overview

Examines Gersonides's views on first principles and their acquisition through sensory experience and intellect in an Aristotelian framework.

Key Points

  • The research aims to clarify Gersonides's complex view on how first principles are acquired and confirmed in his philosophical writings.
  • Analysis of Gersonides's philosophical and scriptural commentaries
  • Examination of his work, Wars of the Lord
  • Contextualizing Gersonides within the Aristotelian tradition
  • Gersonides asserts that first principles arise from sensory experience but are validated by the active intellect.
  • His theory combines elements of abstraction and emanation, differing from radical empiricism.
  • The study situates Gersonides within a distinct framework of genetic empiricism.

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Charles H. Manekin (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a21151ad499ed480b16e53ehttps://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2026.0135
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