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Definition of Averroist

Averroist
Averroist A*ver"ro*ist, n. One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

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- and intellectual analysis. The term Averroist was coined by Thomas Aquinas in the restricted sense of the Averroists' "unity of the intellect" doctrine...
- and in December 1270 banned the teaching of certain Aristotelian and Averroist doctrines at Paris. Thirteen propositions were listed as false and heretical...
- available in the 13th century, this theory was taken up and expanded by Averroists in the Christian West, such as Siger of Brabant (c. 1240 – c. 1284), John...
- outspoken defense of Aristotelianism and his influence in the early Latin Averroist movement. Jandun was born in Reims, in the Champagne region of France...
- Terreni, and Robert Walsingham. Baconthorpe is commonly viewed as an Averroist (a follower of Ibn Rushd, or Averroes in the Latin world), though it is...
- intellectus, contra Averroistas (On the Unity of Intellect, against the Averroists) in which he reprimands Averroism as incompatible with Christian doctrine...
- the same intellect, became one of the best-known and most controversial Averroist doctrines in the West. His works were condemned by the Catholic Church...
- "while the non-Jewish students of Delmedigo may have classified him as an “Averroist”, he clearly saw himself as a follower of Maimonides". But, according...
- own philosophical reasoning, in spite of the hostility surrounding the Averroist doctrines that were condemned at the University of Paris in 1270 and 1277...
- Vernia (c. 1420, in ChietiOctober 31, 1499, in Vicenza) was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua. He studied at Pavia, under Paolo...