176 Dov Schwartz on Jewish Philosophy from Antiquity to the Present , where he devoted a brief section to Gersonides . Although at this time Sole was generally a liberal, he remained within the Religious Zionist parameters insofar as Gersonides’ thought is concerned—testing the extent of its fit with religious conventions . Between the lines, Sole set a clear criterion in his review of Gersonides’ thought : its distance from the “tradition . ” He placed Aristotle in Averroes interpretation on one side and the tradition on the other . Sole consistently examined the extent to which Gersonides had departed from the tradition and drawn closer to Aristotle, and presented this as a gradual, three - staged process : Commitment . Ostensibly, Gersonides tried to reconcile reason ) 1 ( and revelation, but he actually favored reason . Sole writes : Gersonides, like Maimonides, generally seeks a compromise between Aristotle and the tradition, though without admitting so openly . In this regard, Ge...
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