Averroes and His Philosophy

Despite his important stature in the history of philosophy, Averroes is a thinker whose work has been left largely unexplored in this century. It is the aim of this book to rectify this omission, and to argue that his philosophical output is of considerable philosophical as well as historical significance. Introduction: The Cultural Context; Part I Metaphysics; Chapter 1 The Incoherence of the Incoherence; Chapter 2 What Can God Do?; Chapter 3 The Soul and Essence; Part II Practical Philosophy; Chapter 4 Divine Law and Human Wishes; Chapter 5 Philosophy and shar?‘a; Part III Reason, Religion, and Language; Chapter 6 Averroism; Chapter 7 Averroes’ Philosophical Methodology;