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  • Chapter 1 - Averroes, Philosopher of Islam*

  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Matteo Di Giovanni, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Interpreting Averroes
    Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018, pp 9-26

  • Summary

    The opening chapter of the book situates Averroes' project within the intellectual context of medieval Islamic Spain, arguing that Averroes' project of writing commentaries on Aristotle was in part a response to the provocations of Muslim theologians and especially Ghazali. Even some of his most notorious philosophical positions, for instance on the unity of the human intellect and the eternity of the world, can be better understood within this context.

  • Chapter 8 - Averroes and the “Internal Senses”*

  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Matteo Di Giovanni, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Interpreting Averroes
    Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018, pp 138-157

  • Summary

    An exploration of Averroes' theory of the internal senses as this emerges from his commentary on the Parva Naturalia. He seeks to resist Avicenna's innovations in psychology on this topic, and return to what he sees as a more authentically Aristotelian position, a task complicated by the fact that he is using a version of the Parva Naturalia that was markedly different from the original Greek text.

  • Chapter 11 - Averroes on Divine Causation*

  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Matteo Di Giovanni, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Interpreting Averroes
    Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018, pp 198-217

  • Summary

    Averroes seeks to ground philosophical theology in Aristotelian premises, by reconciling the treatment of God in metaphysics as a pure intellect with the portrayal of God in Aristotle's Physics as a cause of heavenly motion. Averroes’ solution to this problem appeals to the central Aristotelian distinction between four kinds of cause, namely formal, final, efficient, and material. In physics He is approached as an efficient cause of motion, while in metaphysics He appears as an efficient, formal, and final cause of being and unity.

  • Chapter 4 - Averroes’ Corrective Philosophy of Law*

  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Matteo Di Giovanni, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Interpreting Averroes
    Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018, pp 64-80

  • Summary

    A study of “philosophy of law” in Averroes, showing that he assimilates the methods and epistemic status of juridical reasoning to those of rhetoric, so that legal proofs are akin to cases of rhetorical persuasion. Since legal conviction is thus always merely probable, Averroes is able to develop a notion of law as evolving and needing constant correction, as befits a system of norms that applies to changing human circumstance.

  • Chapter 10 - Averroes’ Natural Philosophy as Science of Nature*

  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Matteo Di Giovanni, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Interpreting Averroes
    Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018, pp 177-197

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the implications of Averroes’ firm commitment to empiricism and his conviction that an empirically based science can achieve proper demonstrative certitude, in opposition to Ashʿarite voluntarism, which makes all natural events dependent on the untrammeled will of God. Against this Averroes wants to show that through sense-experience we are able to grasp the powers of natural causes, powers that are possessed and yield their effects necessarily, as demanded in demonstrative science.

Interpreting Maimonides
  • Critical Essays
  • Edited by Charles H. Manekin, Daniel Davies
  • Published online:
    03 December 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018
  • Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. In this volume of new essays, world-leading scholars address themes relevant to his philosophical outlook, including his relationship with his Islamicate surroundings and the impact of his work on subsequent Jewish and Christian writings, as well as his reception in twentieth-century scholarship. The essays also address the nature and aim of Maimonides' philosophical writing, including its connection with biblical exegesis, and the philosophical and theological arguments that are central to his work, such as revelation, ritual, divine providence, and teleology. Wide-ranging and fully up-to-date, the volume will be highly valuable for those interested in Jewish history and thought, medieval philosophy, and religious studies.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics
  • Edited by Thomas Williams
  • Published online:
    29 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018
  • Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in medieval thought. This volume presents the full range of medieval ethics in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy in a way that is accessible to a non-specialist and reveals the liveliness and sophistication of medieval ethical thought. In Part I there is a series of historical chapters presenting developmental and contextual accounts of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish ethics. Part II offers topical chapters on such central themes as happiness, virtue, law, and freedom, as well as on less-studied aspects of medieval ethics such as economic ethics, the ethical dimensions of mysticism, and sin and grace. This will be an important volume for students of ethics and medieval philosophy.

Interpreting Averroes
  • Critical Essays
  • Edited by Peter Adamson, Matteo Di Giovanni
  • Published online:
    23 November 2018
    Print publication:
    06 December 2018
  • This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations of Islamic theology. It also sheds light on the interconnections between aspects of his work that are usually studied separately, such as his treatises on logic and his legal writings. Advanced students and scholars will find authoritative and insightful treatments of Averroes' philosophy, tackled from multiple perspectives and written in a clear and accessible way that will appeal to those encountering his work for the first time as well as to anyone looking for new critical approaches to Averroes and his thinking.

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