Question

Although Maimonides rejected Averroes’s commentaries on this thinker, later Jewish thinkers like Moses Narboni built a distinct branch of Jewish Averroism. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Greek philosopher who was the subject of a plethora of medieval commentaries. He also wrote Prior Analytics and Metaphysics.
ANSWER: Aristotle
[10h] Before the emergence of Jewish Averroism, a work about these people by Judah Halevi showed philosophical engagement between Judaic and Islamic thought. In that work, a king of these people uses rational debate to decide which religion to follow, ultimately choosing Judaism.
ANSWER: Khazars [or Kuzari; accept The Book of the Khazar or Sefer ha-Kuzari]
[10m] The twelfth chapter of the Kuzari leans heavily on this thinker’s analysis of the soul. This Islamic philosopher devised the floating man argument to demonstrate that people have immediate and unmediated self-knowledge.
ANSWER: Avicenna [or Ibn Sina or Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari]
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