HoP 164 - Man and Superman - Gersonides and the Jewish Reaction to Averroes
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The World Is Not Eternal
Gersonides rejects the position of his two main influences, Maimonides and Averuis. The world is not eternal, he argues in Wars of the Lord. He adopts a view that philosophers writing in Arabic had always associated with Plato. On this view, the universe was created at a specific time, but not out of nothing.
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