Averroes, Kant and the Origins of the Enlightenment

ISBN: 9781780765709 出版年：2014 页码：289 Saud M S Al Tamamy Bloomsbury Publishing

The twelfth-century philosopher Averroes is often identified by modern Arab thinkers as an early advocate of the Enlightenment. Saud M. S. Al-Tamamy demonstrates that an historical as well as comparative approach to Averroes' thought refutheld assumption. The philosophical doctrine of Averroes is compared wikey figure of the Enlightenment in Western thought, Immanuel Kant. By comparing Averroes and Kant, Al-Tamamy evaluates the ideologies of each thinkerparticular focuses on their respective political implications on two social groups: the Elite, in Averroes' case, and the Public, in the case of Kanmethodology is at once historical, analytical and communicative, and is especially relevant when so many thinkers - both Western and Middle Eastern - are anxious denominators between the formations of Islamic and Western cultures. It responds to a need for comparative analysis in the field of Averroes studies, and takes on the challenge to uncover the philosopher's influence on the Enlightenment.