{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5559","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5559,"authors_free":[{"id":6453,"entry_id":5559,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":null,"person_id":903,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Anthony Raphael Etuk","free_first_name":"Anthony Raphael ","free_last_name":"Etuk","norm_person":{"id":903,"first_name":"","last_name":"","full_name":"","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]="}}],"entry_title":"Revisiting Averroes\u2019 Influence on Western Philosophy","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"Revisiting Averroes\u2019 Influence on Western Philosophy"},"abstract":"Better known as Averroes, Ibn Rushd remains one of the greatest \r\nIslamic philosophical geniuses of all times. The unparalleled \r\ninventiveness of his mind and the \u2015audacity\u2016 of his methods are evident \r\nin many of his innovative philosophical activities, which tremendous \r\nstirred the minds of his contemporaries in the Middle Ages. Perhaps \r\nonly a few would deny the far-reaching impacts of his profound \r\nphilosophical activities and ideas on Western philosophy. Prominent \r\namong these are his unique status as a paramount guide to Aristotle, \r\nbased on his influential and massive commentaries on Aristotle, and his \r\nstrong arguments for the compatibility of philosophy with religion. \r\nThese and more, have since established the depth of his ideas and his \r\nlasting relevance in Western philosophy history. This paper undertakes \r\nan exposition of his philosophical activities, to identify the impacts of \r\nhis enduring legacies on Western philosophy. The expository and \r\nhermeneutical methods of analysis are adopted.","btype":3,"date":"2022","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":21,"category_name":"Aristotle","link":"bib?categories[]=Aristotle"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"},{"id":43,"category_name":"Tradition and Reception","link":"bib?categories[]=Tradition and Reception"}],"authors":[{"id":903,"full_name":"","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":5559,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research","volume":"19","issue":"1","pages":"174-194"}},"sort":["Revisiting Averroes\u2019 Influence on Western Philosophy"]}