Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Fasl al-maqal,) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works, 2023
By: Peter Adamson
Title Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Fasl al-maqal,) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions
Pages 326-340
Categories Dialectic, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Peter Adamson
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Received Wisdom: The Use of Authority in Medieval Islamic Philosophy, 2021
By: Peter Adamson
Title Received Wisdom: The Use of Authority in Medieval Islamic Philosophy
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement
Volume 89
Pages 99-115
Categories Law, Epistemology
Author(s) Peter Adamson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper I challenge the notion that medieval philosophy was characterized by strict adherence to authority. In particular, I argue that to the contrary, self-consciously critical reflection on authority was a widespread intellectual virtue in the Islamic world. The contrary vice, called ‘taqlīd’, was considered appropriate only for those outside the scholarly elite. I further suggest that this idea was originally developed in the context of Islamic law and was then passed on to authors who worked within the philosophical tradition.

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Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays, 2019
By: Peter Adamson (Ed.), Matteo Di Giovanni (Ed.)
Title Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2019
Publication Place Cambridge
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Categories Logic, Natural Philosophy, Psychology, Metaphysics, Law, Medicine, Ethics
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Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Fasl al-maqal,) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works, 2023
By: Peter Adamson
Title Averroes’ Decisive Treatise (Fasl al-maqal,) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions
Pages 326-340
Categories Dialectic, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Peter Adamson
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Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays, 2019
By: Peter Adamson (Ed.), Matteo Di Giovanni (Ed.)
Title Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2019
Publication Place Cambridge
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Categories Logic, Natural Philosophy, Psychology, Metaphysics, Law, Medicine, Ethics
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Received Wisdom: The Use of Authority in Medieval Islamic Philosophy, 2021
By: Peter Adamson
Title Received Wisdom: The Use of Authority in Medieval Islamic Philosophy
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement
Volume 89
Pages 99-115
Categories Law, Epistemology
Author(s) Peter Adamson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper I challenge the notion that medieval philosophy was characterized by strict adherence to authority. In particular, I argue that to the contrary, self-consciously critical reflection on authority was a widespread intellectual virtue in the Islamic world. The contrary vice, called ‘taqlīd’, was considered appropriate only for those outside the scholarly elite. I further suggest that this idea was originally developed in the context of Islamic law and was then passed on to authors who worked within the philosophical tradition.

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