Averroism

Averroism, which is based on these facts, is brought into Christendom through Spain and Sicily.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

Averroism, which is based on these facts, is brought into Christendom through Spain and Sicily.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

Averroism, which is based on these facts, is brought into

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846

*Averroism, a teaching of Averroes, that there is a vast separation between philosophy and theology, and ultimately between faith and knowledge.

Archive 2008-05-18 de Brantigny........................ 2008

*Averroism, a teaching of Averroes, that there is a vast separation between philosophy and theology, and ultimately between faith and knowledge.

The Last Acceptable Prejudice de Brantigny........................ 2008

(Averroism); naturalistic theories of miracles and prophecy; the eternity of the world and the concept of eternal creation; the active intellect as giver of forms; the first cause as necessary existent; the emanation of intelligences from the first cause; the distinction between essence and existence; the theory of primary concepts; the concept of human happiness as resulting from perfect conjunction with the active intellect.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008

However, in some cases it seems that this form of Averroism was curiously influenced by some Latin Scholastic trends, like Thomism and Latin Averroism.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

In this way, “Jewish Avicennism” was slowly absorbed into a sort of “Jewish Ghazalism”, aiming at a defense of Judaism against Averroism (see below, 6).

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

In other cases, some 15th-century Spanish Jewish philosophers even openly attacked Averroism as an old-fashioned trend: Eli Habillo did this around 1470, in introducing his own translation of Antonius Andreas 'questions on Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

“Jewish Averroism” has not yet been written (for a very general sketch of it, see Zonta 1997a, 463-474), so that most information about it can be found in Steinschneider's book about Medieval Jewish translations (Steinschneider 1893, 49-339).

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007