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Ibn Rushd on the Eternity of the World and the Unity of Intellect

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes ideas on the eternity of the world and the unity of intellect of 12th century Arab thinker Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Contrary to creationistic doctrines of the Mutakallimun and al-Gazzâlî he maintained that matter has no beginning and creation goes permanently. In his ontology relaying on Aristotelian notions of the first mover and the first intellect Ibn Rushd pushed God away from nature and society. In this picture of the world, he makes the matter independent claiming that potentially it possesses the variety of forms. God, as the first mover, brings those forms into actuality there they continuously produce new beings. As the first intellect God also enlivens immaterial intelligible forms lined up in some order in heavenly spheres. The lowest sphere of the Moon brings into actuality the immortal actual intellect which is the only reason for every human cognition.

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