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Averroes and His Philosophy (Paperback, Rev)
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Averroes was born in 1126 AD in Cordoba, Andalusia. His education
comprised a thorough grounding in the Maliki approach to
jurisprudence and an Ash'arite introduction to theology. The
Ash'arite put forward an interpretation of Shari'a and Islam which
emphasizes the power and influence of God over all things, an
emphasis which leads them to abandon the objectivity of causality,
ethics, and the world as eternal entity. Averroes spent most of the
rest of his life arguing against this approach. Despite his
important stature in the history of philosophy, Averroes is a
thinker whose work has been left largely unexplored in this
century. It is the aim of this book to rectify this omission, and
to argue that his philosophical output is of considerable
philosophical as well as historical significance. Averroes'
metaphysics is discussed, with particular emphasis upon the issues
which were controversial in his time, such as the apparent denial
of the immortality of the individual soul, the necessity of
causality, and the distinction between essence and existence. The
unity of his thought is stressed, and its source is discovered not
in his religious views but in his theory of meaning. The dev
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