
HoP 166 - Tamar Rudavsky on Gersonides and Crescas
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Gersonides and Kreskis in the Early Years of the Scholastic World
Gersonides and Kreskis were alive in the 14th century. They could have been aware of authors like Aquinas or even Skodas. How plausible is it to think that they were actually reading works of famous scholastic philosophers? I know there's a controversy about whether Gersonides read anything in Latin, for example. There is quite a lot of disagreement over the extent to which Gersonides was aware of Latin writers.
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