Averroes
Definition
The Latinized name of Ibn Rushd (1126–1198), a famous Arab philosopher, physician, jurist, and polymath born in Córdoba, Islamic Andalusia, widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages. His vast and rigorous commentaries on Aristotle's works preserved and reintroduced Greek philosophical heritage to Western Europe, laying the foundations of scholastic rationalism and profoundly influencing Christian and Jewish theology.
Bilingual Equivalents
- Averroes
- Ibn Rushd
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | Proper masculine noun, morphologically invariant, using analytic genitive particles in modern sentence constructions. |
| Formation | Latinized name produced during the Middle Ages by Western scholars adapting the Arabic phonetic sequence of Ibn Rushd. |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.ver.ˈro.es] |
| Source | Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Scholars and Western Transmission Records |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: Averroes a susținut că filozofia și religia nu se contrazic, ci reprezintă două căi diferite de abordare a aceluiași adevăr.
EN: Averroes argued that philosophy and religion do not contradict each other, but represent two different ways of approaching the same truth.
RO: În opera sa Divina Comedie, Dante Alighieri îl plasează pe Averroes în Limb, alături de marii filozofi ai antichității.
EN: In his epic Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri places Averroes in Limbo, alongside the great philosophers of antiquity.
RO: Tratatele medicale scrise de Averroes au fost utilizate ca manuale standard în universitățile din Montpellier și Bologna.
EN: The medical treatises written by Averroes were used as standard textbooks in the universities of Montpellier and Bologna.
Idioms & Phrases
Comentariile lui Averroes / Commentaries of Averroes
RO: Seria de lucrări exegetice (mari, medii și scurte) prin care învățatul a explicat sistemul metafizic și fizic al lui Aristotel.
EN: The series of exegetical works (long, medium, and short) through which the scholar explained Aristotle's metaphysical and physical system.
Teoria lui Averroes despre intelectul unic / Averroes's theory of the unicity of the intellect
RO: Conceptul controversat conform căruia există un singur intelect agent spiritual universal, comun pentru întreaga umanitate.
EN: The controversial concept stating that there is only one universal spiritual agent intellect, shared by all of humanity.
Doctrina dublului adevăr la Averroes / Averroes's double-truth doctrine
RO: Interpretare scholastică ce afirmă autonomia rațiunii filozofice în raport cu dogmele teologice revelate.
EN: A scholastic interpretation asserting the autonomy of philosophical reason in relation to revealed theological dogmas.
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