Abstract

In its reading of Aristotle's book On the Soul, Averroes was not only interested in the knowledge acquired by the intellect but also in the sensationary and post-sensationary stages of our cognitive process. The paper attempts at an interpretation of Averroes' Long Commentary On the Soul as an analysis of how man elaborates the different kinds of cognition, as well as it enquiries on the metaphysical foundations of Averroes'theory of knowledge.