Averroism
noun
the philosophy of Averroës, largely based on Aristotelianism and asserting the unity of an active intellect common to all human beings while denying personal immortality.
Averroist
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a word derived from
Averroism.
Example Sentences
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An Averroist philosopher who was present, Antonio Berga, insisted that, as the sea was higher than the land, it could not simply be because water naturally flows downhill.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Bruno326 belonged mainly to the Averroist school, though his views were probably formed independently, and certainly extended farther.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
Such was the Averroist doctrine of the unity of intellect—the eternal and universal nature of true intellectual life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
The one was the Averroist just named, which consisted in the disbelief of immortality on the ground of absorption.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
