Explanation
For Arkoun, Averroes represents the model of critical rationality in Islamic history, but he is not the moment when the independence of reason is fully achieved, as one might suppose. He also appears as a thinker whose philosophy was excluded from the Islamic sphere while its influence continued in Europe; he thus became a symbol for understanding the fate of philosophy between openness and closure.
Referenced by
- Aristotle remained influential in Europe
- Reviving Averroes alone is not enough
- Averroes was excluded in Islam
- Averroes is not the age of independence
- Averroes succeeded in Europe and failed here
- Averroes as a model of critical rationality
- Averroes and Ibn Khaldun as two rational moments
- Averroes and the censorship of 1277
- Using critical deconstruction to link heritage and modernity
- The independence of reason in modernity
- The harmony between the law and wisdom
- Islamic tensions with Aristotelian origins
- European modernity produced the independence of reason
- Islamic rationality consisted of brief and limited moments
- A multidisciplinary reading of heritage
- The interruption of philosophy after Averroes
- The triad of reason and faith
- A new reading that goes beyond the three philosophers
- Intermediate thinkers open up critical inquiry
- The success of ideas depends on their social conditions