摘要:The reception of Aristotelian philosophy with Averroes’s commentaries in the thirteenth-century Latin world promoted a new way of understanding natural philosophy and its method. A very special case among the readers of such commentaries, mostly found at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris, are the so-called averroistae. What these averroistae actually were isstill a matter of discussion in current scholarship, whereas there is kind of consensus regarding the main exponents of this philosophical movement, namely Siger of Brabant and Boethius of Dacia. The aim of this paper is to shed light on thistopic by providing a re-definition of Averroism in the 13th century. To do this, I will analyse some of the most important works of the aforementioned authors in an attempt to clarify the specificity of their philosophical program.
其他摘要:Sceptical by vocation, Borges defended, despite the vast philosophical reservoir that animated his work, a singularly provocative conception of metaphysics: it is only a branch of the literature of fantasy. From this sentence, which prima facie seems to invalidate metaphysics in its epistemic pretensions, we will address some connections between Borges’s and Leibniz’s letters in relation to what we will call a ‘metaphysics of mirrors’. Borges will often invoke the name of Leibniz and give ‘literary form’ to a set of theses being at the core of Leibnizian metaphysics. Although distant in time and space, it seems that a ‘dialogue’ takes place between both of them in the cenacle of a common tradition.