Thursday, September 19, 2013

Averroës

According to Immanuel Kant philosophy forms part of human life since we are little children, we always ask ourselves and other about what's going on around us but that doesn't necessarily means that we will always study philosophy it is know that we are not really finding philosophy studies previous to college or outside a Catholic Church, but studies had find in Morocco that almost everyone has at least the basic knowledge of what philosophy is.

Philosophy was mainly studied in Ancient Greece but then it faded away in an era know as the "Dark Ages",until some philosophical movements where they reemerge all around the world.

During the enlightenment and the rise of modern sciences the study of philosophy mainly took place in Islamic cultures, who wanted to recovered these old traditions, making Baghdad the intellectual center during the medieval world.

Averroës who developed close ties with Almohad caliphs became an influential religious judge and physician, he devoted much of his scholarly efforts to a series of commentaries on Aristotle. The most interesting thing about Averroës was although he was a muslim he had little influence on the medieval world, his works survived only in Latin and Hebrew translations. He mixed philosophy with religion and promoted logic as key to true understanding of religion.

Points of view:
1)The world has always existed
2)Souls will survive, but will never return to the same bodies
3)intellect and soul are separate

He affirms that there should not be conflict between philosophy and faith, but he accepts not everyone should question religion as philosophy demands.

Because in great Muslim Universities was no place for philosophy because they were mainly religion Averroës ideas were't important for them, however thanks to his ideologies many universities in the western world make philosophy part of their program.


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