How- ever, part of the explanation has to do with the historical context and the circumstances of Aristotle's reception in Introduction 3 the West, and, in the first place, with the fact that the Arabs were one of the channels of the Aristotelian philos- ophical heritage for the Latin West. [...] How- ever, in keeping with the apostolic nature of the Pugio Fidei, Martin summarily dismisses the explanation, calling Averroes1 doctrine of the intellect Platonic, and his view 13 of the soul the "nonsense of madmen." The feeling that the philosophy of Averroes, if not also that of Aristotle, posed a threat to the Christian faith was clearly growing stronger with the passage of time. [...] In both apologies Pomponazzi main- tained that natural reason alone cannot prove the immorta- lity of the soul, and contended that the doctrine of the mortality of the soul is the proper consequence of the doctrine of Aristotle and Averroes that the soul is the form of the body, though he did accept immortality as an 20 article of faith. [...] It would seem that such a concept of the immortality of the soul had its origin in Greek philosophy when Plato transformed the pri- mitive view of the immortality of the soul, that alien ghost within man, into the doctrine of the mortality of an alien body connected to the self. [...] In sum, all these compli- cations -- the difference in the doctrines of the two reli- gions, the spurious interpretation of Averroes by the so- called Averroists, and the fact that only the Hebrew liter- ature had fallen heir to the complete translation of the Tahafut al-Tahafut — tended to hinder the Christian scho- lastics from understanding how Averroes1 theory of the in- tellect could allow a
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- INTRODUCTION 8
- The Background 8
- The Medieval Reaction to Averroes 11
- The Medieval Reaction Reconsidered 17
- The Modern Reaction 22
- The Problem of the Immortality of the Soul in Averroes 29
- CHAPTER I. THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AVERROISTIC CONTROVERSIES 36
- The Qur'anic Anthropology 36
- The Christian Anthropologies 47
- The Aristotelian Anthropology 60
- CHAPTER II. AVERROES ON REASON AND REVELATION 67
- Reason and Revelation in Islam Before Averroes 67
- Reason and Revelation According to Averroes 74
- Reason and Revelation According to Aquinas 89
- CHAPTER III. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL 91
- Soul and Intellect in the Commentary on the De Anima 91
- Soul and Intellect in the Tahafut al-Tahafut 111
- Life After Death 114
- CHAPTER IV. THE NATURE OF MAN'S BEATITUDE 122
- Averroes' Theory of Intellection 122
- Man's Perfection as Union with the Agent Intellect 128
- Reward and Punishment 135
- CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION 138
- NOTES 150
- Introduction 150
- Chapter I 156
- Chapter II 164
- Chapter III 171
- Chapter IV 175
- Chapter V 177
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 179
- INDEX 202
- A 202
- B 202
- C 202
- D 202
- E 203
- F 203
- G 203
- H 203
- I 203
- J 203
- K 204
- L 204
- M 204
- N 204
- O 204
- P 204
- Q 205
- R 205
- S 205
- T 205
- U 206
- V 206
- W 206
- Z 206