History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 149 - Back to Basics - Averroes on Reason and Religion
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Nov 9, 2013 AI Snips
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Averroes Impresses His Patron
- Averroes nervously met the ruler Abu Ya'qub Yusuf and skillfully discussed philosophy to impress him.
- The emir rewarded Averroes lavishly, including giving him a fine steed, though the story's historicity is uncertain.
Averroes' Enduring Influence
- Averroes wrote massive line-by-line commentaries on Aristotle's works but his Arabic texts largely survived only in translations.
- His influence waned in the Muslim world but soared in Latin Christendom and among Jewish scholars.
Averroes as Philosophical Traditionalist
- Averroes tried to revive the old Aristotelian approach of Baghdad's philosophers to defend philosophy.
- However, this approach was outdated in the Muslim intellectual context dominated by Avicenna's legacy.