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Averroism
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Averroism
Averroism
is a school of
Islamic philosophy
that arose from the influence of the twelfth century
Al-Andalus
Muslim
philosopher
Averroës
, who worked on reconciling
Aristotelianism
with
Islam
. Alternatively, the term Averroism may refer to the application of these ideas by thirteenth-century
scholastic
philosophers in the
Latin Christian
and Jewish intellectual traditions, such as
Siger of Brabant
,
Boetius of Dacia
and
Maimonides
. The term was used by the theologian
Thomas Aquinas
in a restricted sense to mean
monopsychism
and radical Aristotelianism.
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