ABSTRACT

Now the position which I have already outlined: that the Commentator was an original philosopher, in that the profound impetus of his thought proceeds from his faith, is hardly an accepted one. Hence my particular interest in other positions, like those of Jean Jolivet, Charles Touati, and Dominique Urvoy. All three of them insist on the difference between a metaphysics unaware of the creator, like that of Aristotle, and a metaphysics whose rationality stems from the certainty of the creator’s existence, like that of Averroës.1