Quiz: Averroes

When was Averroes born?

• 1126, Cordoba, Spain.
• 1332, Tunis, Tunisia.
• 1058, Tus, in what is now Iran.
• 1033, Aosta, in what is now Italy.

When did Averroes die?

• 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco.
• 1274, Fossanova, Italy, on the way to the Council of Lyon.
• 1109, Canterbury, England.
• 1347, Munich, Germany, probably of the plague.

What is Averroes known for?

• The great commentaries on Aristotle and The Incoherence of the Incoherence, his reply to Al Ghazali defending philosophy.
• The ontological argument: God, defined as that than which nothing greater can be thought, must exist even in reality. Also Cur Deus Homo, on why God became man.
• The Summa Theologiae, the five ways of proving God's existence by reason, and the claim that grace perfects nature instead of destroying it.
• Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, and writings against papal power in politics.

Which school of thought was Averroes part of?

• Islamic Aristotelianism, against the theologians.
• Scholasticism; his own system is called Thomism.
• Scholasticism, at its beginning.
• Neo Confucianism, the school of principle.

True or false: Cordoban philosopher, judge, and physician whose line by line commentaries on Aristotle earned him the Latin name the Commentator.

• True
• False