Title: Les possibilités de jonction : Averroès - Thomas Wylton /
Authors: Brenet, Jean-Baptiste,; Wylton, Thomas, active 1288-1322.
Publisher: De Gruyter,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Averroës,; Wylton, Thomas,; Mind and body; Philosophy
Abstract: "This book is an essay - with an annotated translation - about the psychology of Averroes, Aristotle’s Commentator, and its influence in Latin philosophy. It specifically addresses his famous doctrine of the intellect, long deemed scandalous, and its critical defence by one of his epigones, the English XIVth century theologian Thomas Wylton, also descended from the great scholastics Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. On new textual bases, the author tackles some of the main noetic questions of Greco-Arabic peripateticism: the relation between soul and body, the status of imagination, the nature of the intellect’s power, the autonomy of the thinker, or the theoretical accomplishment of the individual as conjunction with the “agent” intellect. The author argues that Wylton’s averroism is a conceptually consistent exegesis, an indiosynchratic combination of various elements found in Ibn Rushd’s [Averroës] system, while also, against a depreciatory tradition, contextualizing Averroes and his doctrine in relation to the active field of modern philosophy, within an identical rationality."--
Contents: Les possibilités de jonction. La question ; L’âme humaine et la nature de l’intellect "matériel" ; Wylton et l’être en acte de l’intellect matériel ; Le quatrième genre d’être chez Averroès: une pure puissance? ; L’intellect agent hors de l’âme ; La maîtrise par l’image ; La dimension formelle de l’intellect agent ; Le rapport de l’intellect et du corps ; La lecture de Wylton ; La position d’Averroès -- Thomas Wylton, L’Âme intellective. Avant-propos ; Texte et traduction ; Notes de la traduction.