ABSTRACT
This chapter indicates briefly, on a number of points, how Averroism survived and responded to Thomas Aquinas's attacks. It explores three major figures to serve as a framework for more detailed analyses: Siger of Brabant, Aquinas's contemporary, then Thomas Wylton and John of Jandun, two thinkers active in Paris at the beginning of the 14th century. The position of theologian Thomas Wylton (d. ca. 1327), active in Paris at the beginning of the 14th century, is original and strong. The first was that of Alexander of Aphrodisias, the great Greek commentator on Aristotle, who was very influential in the Arab world and whom the Latins read and knew mainly from what Averroes himself said about him. Wylton's argument (a position he later reversed for religious reasons) is that we can establish with Averroes that the intellective soul, likened to the material intellect, is indeed an "informing" form of this type for the body.
