Abstract

En su refutación de los filósofos, el teólogo Algacel ataca sus doctrinas sobre la causalidad divina, y destaca su crítica a la doctrina de Avicena basada en la distinción entre ser necesario por sí mismo, y posible por sí mismo pero necesario por causa de otro. Cuando Averroes refuta, a su vez, la obra de Algacel, a menudo señala que la doctrina que este atacaba era propia de Avicena, y no de Aristóteles, y se aparta del primero.In his refutation of the philosophers, the Muslim theologian Al-Ghazzâlî argues for the incoherency of their doctrines on divine causality, and focuses his attacks on Avicenna’s doctrine of the distinction between being necessary by itself and being possible by itself, but necessary because of another. When Averroes refutes, on his turn, Al-Ghazzâlî’s work, he often points out that the doctrine refuted by al-Ghazzâlî belongs to Avicenna, not to Aristotle, and distances himself from the former