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'''Siger of Brabant''' was a thirteenth century philosopher and theologian who taught at the University of Paris. He was a prominent member of a group of teachers, mostly at the Faculty of Arts in Paris, known to historians as the 'Latin Averroists', who aimed at a secular interpretation of [[Aristotle]].
'''Siger of Brabant''' was a thirteenth century philosopher and theologian who taught at the University of Paris. He was a prominent member of a group of teachers, mostly at the Faculty of Arts in Paris, known to historians as the 'Latin Averroists', who aimed at a secular interpretation of [[Aristotle]].
== Influence ==
== Influence ==
Mandonnet rediscovered Siger's work in the 1890's. This was of some importance to our understanding of medieval philosophy, suggesting it could no longer be viewed simply as theology, although it is still not clear how we should interpret his work. According to Mandonnet, he was an Averroist who endorses Christian doctrine only because it is expedient. Van Steenberghen, by contrast, regards him as a sincere Christian whose position was close to that of Aquinas.
His works include logical works (<i>Impossibilia</i>, <i>Quaestiones logicales</i>, <i>Sophismata</i>); commentaries on Aristotle (<i>In III De Anima</i>, <i>De generatione</i>, <i>Physics</i>, <i>Metaphysics</i>), and the Treatises <i>De Necessitate et contingentia causarum</i>, <i>De aeternitate mundi</i>, and <i>De anima intellectiva</i>, some of which were published by Mandonnet in 1899.
==Primary sources ==
==Primary sources ==
==Secondary sources ==
==Secondary sources ==
*Bazan, B.C., Article 'Siger of Brabant', in <i>A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages</i>, ed. Gracia & Noone, Oxford 2006.
* Mandonnet, P., Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme latin du XIII e siecle (Fribourg, 1899); G. Paris, "Siger de Brabant" in La Poesie du moyen age (1895); and an article in the Revue de Paris (Sept. 1st, 1900).<br>
* Van Steenberghen, F., (1977), <i>Maitre Siger de Brabant</i>, Paris: Publications Universitaires, Louvain, Vander-Oyez S.A<br>
== Links ==
== Links ==
== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[Category:Philosophers]]
[[Category:Philosophers]]
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[[Death Date:=1280]]
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