
HoP 149 - Back to Basics - Averroes on Reason and Religion
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Failure of Averuis Ali to Make an Impact in the East
Averuis died in 1198, by which time the eastern heartlands of Islam were deep into grappling with Avasana rather than Aristotle. His was a doubly outdated endeavor, an attempt to revive the Baghdad revival of late antique Alexandria. What Averuis offered then was a throwback to a philosophical approach that was simply no longer relevant for mainstream intellectuals in places like Persia.
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