Analogy and Immanent Knowledge of God according to Averroes' Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Delta

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Abstract

In his Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Delta, the book of the Metaphysics in which Aristotle lists significations of 30 metaphysical terms, Averroes links the terms together through analogical relation. At one point, Averroes tells us that things related analogically form a kind of genus and thus we can infer that the terms in Book Delta together form a single genus that can be studied in metaphysics. Averroes also connects these terms via analogical relation to the Divine, particularly the Divine Final Cause of Metaphysics Lambda. Consequently, understanding the significations of the terms described in Book Delta is part of understanding the genus that includes the Divine. Yet, in the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, the terms of Book Δ are explained as they are understood in ordinary, not necessarily philosophical language. Thus there is a kind of immanence of the Divine in the ordinary use of these terms, even though it is not always so understood by everyone who uses those terms.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2012
EventPhilosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions - Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Duration: 25 Jun 201225 Jun 2012

Conference

ConferencePhilosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMilwaukee, WI
Period25/06/1225/06/12

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