Averroes and Narboni on the Material Intellect

Questions regarding the human intellect haunted Averroes throughout his philosophic career; no less than seven of his preserved works treat the human intellect formally, while others, naturally enough, also do so incidentally. Here I shall point out that the seven aforementioned works fall into a se...

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Main Author: Davidson, Herbert Alan 1932- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 1984
In: AJS review
Year: 1984, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-184
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Summary:Questions regarding the human intellect haunted Averroes throughout his philosophic career; no less than seven of his preserved works treat the human intellect formally, while others, naturally enough, also do so incidentally. Here I shall point out that the seven aforementioned works fall into a sequence, that a recently published text of Averroes' has its place within the sequence, and that Moses Narboni misread Averroes for reasons to be explained.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009400000933