/lit/ - Literature

>>3046699
Thanks. I know that Avicenna and Averroes had greatly influenced the Latin world, but I know little about them otherwise (I even tend to confuse them and simply reading Wikipedia articles on them probably wouldn't help much in the matter).

Maybe I should have been more direct in the first post. One of the main points of the course is that medieval thought isn't as isolated from early modernity (or modernity in general) as certain prejudices state and that there is plenty of important philosophical work to be found in the Middle Ages even though many believe this work to consist only of commentaries on Ancient philosophy.
By this I mean that while I know Averroes was highly influential in the history of Western philosophy, I'd rather search for works that bridge the gap between late medieval thought and modernity or works that are still influential today even if indirectly (like Duns Scotus' univocity for Deleuze and Heidegger). Maybe this last sentence wasn't the best way to put it, as someone might suggest Thomas Aquinas simply because of neotomism (of which I've only heard rather bad things), but I don't know how else to explain it.

On the other hand, I know nothing about Averroes' ideas or influence on contemporary/modern philosophers (if there is any) so...

tl;dr philosophical value > historical value

>>3042253
I fail to see the problem, in fact what you described is probably the best kind of Christian (not that there's much competition).

Besides, I think Zizek put it perfectly (while quoting someone else, but I forgot whom): atheism is best described as making the question about God's "existence" irrelevant. So an atheist would not concern himself all day with God's existence or inexistence and the moral or amoral consequences (such an atheist is kidding himself, he needs a god), but rather say "Maybe there is a God, it is irrelevant to the way I act".