Averroes and the Aristotle Legacy
Averroes retained from the Aristotle's allowed the following points to the world is eternal, the mortal species provides no fault with their ceaseless news that people are dying, still others replace them, and if the wisdom is lacking in a point on Earth, we can be sure it is in any other the man, as being specific, is always inescapably" attached" to the brains, Of course it's different for men features the study of each is linked to its own images. thus, despite the oneness of the minds, the studies of man are different from those of others, it also explains my study is, in a sense, my own, since it depends on me to join the insight specialist ", i.e. to make the abstract comprehensible either of my images. But, Aristotle teaches, the imagination is related to body and dies with him, so the individual study is perishable, and, after death," we don't flash back more." And seems removed any belief in particular eternity, but in the al- Tahafut Tahafut" Averroes points out that, according to Aristotle, the revision of an organ, eye, for illustration, doesn't inescapably indicate that of the corresponding faculty( then, the view) which may suggest that the intellect is not only to survive the death of the body. But the question of the mind, man" has entered little wisdom," as the Quran says a passage quoted by Averroes and the problem remains open. still, the doctrine of Averroes is impeccably clear regarding an issue batted for times by the Muslim proponents, that of common"( ittisal, continuatio in Latin restatements) with the intellect" agent". Our author explains this in several places in its commentary to the Treaty of the soul, and in three" letters" on this issue To understand how we're" moving towards the junction," must be added to what was said above that in passing the act, the material intellect is intellect habitus, that is, possession stable knowledge, generalities, whose number is adding at will. When we're streamlined to all comprehensible the material intellect was potentially" the intellect soon joins us" is the term of the movement towards the junction. What's it exactly? Knowledge is exceeded by abstraction if the material intellect acquires perfection in mind forms involved in the matter, he can let alone allowing of immaterial forms, comprehensible by itself( it still comes Alexander's Aphrodisias).
Averroes' Philosophy Summary:
Averroes rejects the idea of creating the world in time, the world, says he has no beginning . The manner of Aristotle, he conceived God as the "prime mover", the autonomous force that stimulates movement, transforming the existing potential.
The human soul emanates from the unique universal soul united.
Averroes was admired by the Jews of Spain who spread his Philosophy in Europe,particularly Italy and France after they were forced to leave Spain. The thought of Averroes
was interpreted by Christian thinkers who called it" the theory of double truth."
Although Averroes never really supported the existence of two categories of truth, one philosophical, the other religious. This implies a separation of reason and faith and influenced the philosophical and theological speculation for many centuries.
It is the Jews and Christians committed to preserving and translating his works that he owes his posthumous influence.
Conclusion:
The tolerant rationalism of Averroes
Doctor, lawyer and philosopher Arab Averroes plays an important role in the rediscovery of Aristotle in the West.
In his comments, which were used in preference to the original texts of Aristotle, he believes that metaphysical truths can be expressed in two ways: through philosophy (represented by the views of Aristotle and the Neoplatonists of late antiquity) and religion (represented as simplified and allegorical revealed books).
It is this philosophy that left the mainstream of Latin Averroism followed respectively by Siger de Brabant (1235 - 1282) in Paris and by the physician Pietro de Abano Padua (1250-1315) Padua (The Medicine is called "second way of thinking": the two disciplines are complementary one caregiver's soul and one body ... medicine and philosophy are sisters. ")
This doctrine was later opposed by Thomas Aquinas, who sought to reconcile faith and reason to establish theology as rational science.
This philosophical principle has caused great controversy and has raised heated debate. It was later declared heretical by Muslims and Christians because it contradicted by the doctrine of personal immortality (conviction by the Bishop of Paris in 1270 and by Pope Leo X in 1513). The Comments have considerable influence both on the scholastic Christian Philosophy in medieval Europe and the Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Averroes has profoundly influenced the development of theoretical medicine, which paved the way for understanding the Greek theories on the subject, and, thanks to critical reviews he produced works of Galen and others, but also its critical analysis of their theories and the formulation of opinions contrary to theirs.
