Averroist Definition

noun

Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.

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Noun

Singular:
averroist
Plural:
averroists

Origin of Averroist

  • From Averroes, one name of a celebrated Arabian philosopher who held the doctrine of monopsychism.

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Averroist Sentence Examples

  • In Italy, Bologna and Padua were earliest distinguished for medical studies - the former preserving more of the Galenical tradition, the latter being more progressive and Averroist.

  • Such was the Averroist doctrine of the unity of intellect - the eternal and universal nature of true intellectual life.

  • Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.

  • Even a lady of Venice, Cassandra Fedele, in 1480, gained her laurels in defence of Averroist theses.

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