Averroes

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• The controversy arose from Thomas's introduction of Aristotle's philosophy, passed along from Arab philosophers, particularly Averroes (1126-1198).
• Averroes, the Cordoba physician, became the faithful editor of and commentator on the works of Aristotle.
• Averroes has, unlike Avicenna, made the way something is picked out by the term crucial in determining what kind of modal proposition is produced. Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic
• Narboni was a declared Averroist (see below, 9), but he might have tried to find in Ibn Bajja something in agreement with Averroes 'philosophical thought. Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought
• *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
• Isidore certainly influenced Muslim scholars in Spain but, Bede apart, no Christian scholar from the mid-7th to early 11th century made an original contribution to scholarship comparable to those of Muslims such as Avicenna and Averroes or Jews such as Moses Maimonides. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Averroes God turns potential shit into actual shit.
• The essentials of its teaching reached the West much later via Arabic translation, in Toledo, and the commentaries of Averroes.
• A favourite principle of Avicenna, which is quoted not only by Averroes but also by the Schoolmen, and especially by St. Albert the Great, was intellectus in formis agit universalitatem, that is, the universality of our ideas is the result of the activity of the mind itself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
• My favorite Borges stories, if you are interested in knowing, are "La busca de Averroes" (which I can't find online anywhere Thanks to Alejandro for pointing out that it is here); Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius (I find the whole notion of a Nihilartikel fascinating); and El Sur. Links and Things