Averroísmo

Averroism refers to a school of medieval philosophy based on the application of the works of 12th-century Andalusian philosopher Averroes, a commentator on Aristotle, in 13th-century Latin Christian scholasticism. Latin translations of Averroes' work became widely available at the universities which were springing up in Western Europe in the 13th century, and were received by scholasticists such as Siger of Brabant and Boetius of Dacia, who examined Christian doctrines through reasoning and intellectual analysis. The term Averroist was coined by Thomas Aquinas in the restricted sense of the Averroists' unity of the intellect doctrine in his book De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas.Based on this, Averroism came to be near-synonymous with atheism in late medieval usage. As a historiographical category, Averroism was first defined by Ernest Renan in Averroí¨s et l'averroí¯sme (1852) in the sense of radical or heterodox Aristotelianism. The reception of Averroes in Jewish thought has been termed Jewish Averroism.Jewish Averroist thought flourished in the later 14th century, and gradually declined in the course of the 15th century.The last representative of Jewish Averroism was Elia del Medigo, writing in 1485.

Averroísmo es el término aplicado a dos tendencias filosóficas de la escolástica desde finales del siglo XIII, la primera de las cuales estaba basada en las interpretaciones del aristotelismo por el filósofo cordobés Averroes (Ibn Rushd) y su intento de conciliarle con el Islam. Sus enseñanzas se difundieron por todos los reinos árabes especialmente en la península ibérica. Los filósofos cristianos a su vez aplicaban estas ideas a los escritos de Aristóteles para hacer lo propio con el cristianismo. Averroísta designa al grupo de pensadores seguidores de Averroes, filósofo y teólogo musulmán de la Edad Media. Se caracterizan por su influencia muy marcada de Aristóteles tratando de compatibilizar la revelación musulmana y la lógica aristotélica para tener una mejor comprensión de Dios. Los principales autores involucrados en el movimiento averroísta fueron Siger de Brabante y Boecio de Dacia.