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Having set out Averroes’ textual arguments from Aristotle’s DA in Chapter 1, this chapter begins investigating Averroes’ independent philosophical arguments for the unicity thesis, focusing on the Determinate Particular Argument (DPA). The DPA argues that the material/possible intellect (MPI) is not a determinate particular. The chapter reveals several new aspects of the DPA, explaining its key premises and clarifying its primary conclusion––namely that the MPI is not a material determinate particular––in light of Averroes’ broader metaphysics. Against a consensus of scholars and despite some complex reasons to think Averroes himself regarded the DPA as a sufficient argument for the unicity thesis, the chapter contends that, in fact, the DPA is inadequate for Averroes’ full doctrine of intellect. Rather, the DPA establishes only a critical part of the unicity thesis, namely the intellect’s Nature (separate, immaterial), but not its Number (one for all).

Author

Ogden, Stephen R. (author)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192649461