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Averroes on Intellect - From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas' Critique (Hardcover)
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Averroes on Intellect - From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas' Critique (Hardcover)
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Averroes on Intellect provides a detailed analysis of the Muslim
philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd)'s notorious unicity thesis - the
view that there is only one separate and eternal intellect for all
human beings. It focuses directly on Averroes' arguments, both from
the text of Aristotle's De Anima and, more importantly, his own
philosophical arguments in the Long Commentary on the De Anima.
Stephen Ogden defends Averroes' interpretation of De Anima using a
combination of Greek, Arabic, Latin, and contemporary sources. Yet,
Ogden also insists that Averroes is not merely a 'commentator' but
an incisive philosopher in his own right. The author thus
reconstructs and analyzes Averroes' two most significant
independent philosophical arguments, the Determinate Particular
Argument and the Unity Argument. Alternative ancient and medieval
views are also considered throughout, especially from two important
foils before and after Averroes, namely, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and
Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas' most famous and penetrating arguments
against the unicity thesis are also addressed. Finally, Ogden
considers Averroes' own objections to broader metaphysical views of
the soul like Avicenna's and Aquinas', which agree with him on
several key points including the immateriality of the intellect and
the individuation of human souls by matter, while still diverging
on the number and substantial nature of the intellect. The central
goal of this book is to provide readers with a single study of
Averroes' most pivotal arguments on intellect, consolidating and
building on recent scholarship and offering a comprehensive case
for his unicity thesis in the wider context of Aristotelian
epistemology and metaphysics.
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