Title | Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2016 |
Journal | Synthesis Philosophica |
Volume | 62 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 335–344 |
Categories | Renaissance, Averroism |
Author(s) | Massimo Campanini |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averroës and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno’s “Averroism”. |
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Title | Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of Matter: Averroes’s Notion of the Imagination and Its Renaissance Interpreters |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2013 |
Published in | Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe |
Pages | 173–196 |
Categories | Averroism, Renaissance, Psychology |
Author(s) | Guido Giglioni |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
In Averroes’s view of the cosmos, living beings discern, animals imagine, individual human beings cogitate, humankind as a whole thinks, and intellects intuit and understand themselves. In other words, natural operations in living organisms are capable of discriminating between the useful and the harmful, animal nature processes images (intentions is Averroes’s term) from matter, individual men cogitate those images and the human intellect thinks insofar as it is considered a species, i.e., the human species. In this sense, the intellect of the human species thinks the sublunary world as one collective representation of the universe to be further abstracted and processed by higher levels of intellectual activity. A number of Renaissance philosophers, depending on how they interpreted the special relationship between intellects, the material intellect and bodily imaginations, elaborated a series of fascinating solutions in response to Averroes’s challenging view. This chapter focuses on the notion of the imagination – and dream imagination in particular – and intends to demonstrate the important role played by this faculty in unravelling some of the most notorious puzzles of Averroes’s philosophy. As will become clear over the course of this chapter, this role needs to be explored in all its various dimensions (metaphysical, epistemological, cosmological, medical and theologico-political). |
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Title | Rethinking Renaissance Averroism |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2007 |
Journal | Intellectual History Review |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 3-28 |
Categories | Averroism, Renaissance |
Author(s) | Craig Martin |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Title | Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2016 |
Journal | Synthesis Philosophica |
Volume | 62 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 335–344 |
Categories | Renaissance, Averroism |
Author(s) | Massimo Campanini |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averroës and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno’s “Averroism”. |
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Title | Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of Matter: Averroes’s Notion of the Imagination and Its Renaissance Interpreters |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2013 |
Published in | Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe |
Pages | 173–196 |
Categories | Averroism, Renaissance, Psychology |
Author(s) | Guido Giglioni |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
In Averroes’s view of the cosmos, living beings discern, animals imagine, individual human beings cogitate, humankind as a whole thinks, and intellects intuit and understand themselves. In other words, natural operations in living organisms are capable of discriminating between the useful and the harmful, animal nature processes images (intentions is Averroes’s term) from matter, individual men cogitate those images and the human intellect thinks insofar as it is considered a species, i.e., the human species. In this sense, the intellect of the human species thinks the sublunary world as one collective representation of the universe to be further abstracted and processed by higher levels of intellectual activity. A number of Renaissance philosophers, depending on how they interpreted the special relationship between intellects, the material intellect and bodily imaginations, elaborated a series of fascinating solutions in response to Averroes’s challenging view. This chapter focuses on the notion of the imagination – and dream imagination in particular – and intends to demonstrate the important role played by this faculty in unravelling some of the most notorious puzzles of Averroes’s philosophy. As will become clear over the course of this chapter, this role needs to be explored in all its various dimensions (metaphysical, epistemological, cosmological, medical and theologico-political). |
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Title | Rethinking Renaissance Averroism |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2007 |
Journal | Intellectual History Review |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 3-28 |
Categories | Averroism, Renaissance |
Author(s) | Craig Martin |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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