Disputation on the Unity of the Intellect and the Birth of the Parisian University Intellectual
Disputation on the Unity of the Intellect and the Birth of the Parisian University Intellectual

Summary/Abstract: "In some famous paintings that show St. Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, the philosopher, is shown in positions that appear to have been conferred upon him by the painter under the pressure of an ideological context. As they are probably both an echo of the doctrinal disputations of the end of the thirteenth century between the Latin Averroism, Franciscans and Dominicans, and of the sanctification of St. Thomas in 1323, these representations tacitly correspond with the unique moment of doctrinal adversity between St. Thomas and Averroes: namely, that of the treatise On the Unity of the Intellect Against the Averroists in which St. Thomas addresses a critique of the opinions expressed by Averroes in The Great Commentary to Aristotle’s treatise On the Soul. [...]"

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