Averroism

or Av·er·rho·ism

[ av-uh-roh-iz-uhm, uh-ver-oh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the philosophy of Averroës, largely based on Aristotelianism and asserting the unity of an active intellect common to all human beings while denying personal immortality.

Averroism

/ əˈvɛrəʊ-; ˌævəˈrəʊɪzəm /

First recorded in 1745–55; Averro(ës) ( def ) + -ism

Renan, however, says that he merely tried to justify Averroism against the charge of heterodoxy.

In the later middle ages free thought, combating the Thomistic system, inclined to Averroism.

This was heresy, and indeed was the sum of what was called Averroism, the chief intellectual heresy of the thirteenth century.

Notwithstanding, Averroism was a fashionable cult in Venice.

Under the designation of Averroism, there came into prominence the theories of Emanation and Absorption.

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