HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Averroism, Averroes, Scholasticism
5 Nov 2020
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The muslim averroes inspired the latin averroists of the 13th century christianity. Scholasticism emerged as a method for dealing systematically with averroistic questions of faith and rationality. The scholastic method was perfected at the universities by mendicant thinkers. Francis himself didn"t shy away from worldly entanglements. He also produced texts that marked the beginning of franciscan literature. The best example is the hymn known as the canticle of the sun. His approach emphasizes nature as a pathway to the divine. The movements they founded needed later followers to systematically develop their worldviews: the paris example. The university of paris employed both thomas aquinas and bonaventure. He wrote many works but none were better than his suma theologiae. In this work he wanted to answer every possible question about soul, god and world. Just like albert, he had an appreciation for non-christians like aristotle and avicenna. Thomas didn"t want to go as far as averroes in radical reason.
