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Monfasani rightly underscores Ficino's reluctance to enter into the fray while at the same time stressing elements of concord between the "old" Aristotelians and Platonism (as opposed to the Averroist reading of the Stagirite that was eliciting such debate in contemporary circles). Hasan Hanafi, a professor of philosophy at Cairo University, has described most of the contributions in the volume on Ibn Rushd as "rhetorical," and blamed the authors for using Averroist philosophy to attack religious extremism in the name of reason, and by so doing buttress the regime against its political enemies. The implications of this theory are developed in this book in the introduction and in the last two chapters: "Bruno appropriates the Averroist doctrine of philosophy as perfection of man, of contemplative happiness or beatitude, of copulatio with the divine in this earthly life. |
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