Averroes, y la crítica de Avicena

Abstract

In his refutation of the philosophers, the Muslim theologian al-Ghazzali (d. 1111) argues for the incoherency of their doctrines on divine causality. He focuses his criticism on Avicenna's (d. 1037) distinction between being necessary per se, and being possible per se, although necessary because of another. When Averroes (d. 1198), on his turn, rebates al-Ghazzali's work, he points out that the doctrines ascribed to the philosophers, are those of Avicenna, and not of Aristotle and often distances himselffrom the later.