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Jandun is best known for his work on the agens sensus, the principle of individuation, and the priority of universal knowledge to particular knowledge. He also wrote on the theory of the vacuum, plurality of forms, form and matter, the soul, the intellect, as well as other topics relating to Aristotle.
John of Jandun’s most influential writings are commentaries on Aristotle; his major concern was the division between faith and reason.
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Jan 1, 2020 · John of Jandun (c. 1285–1328) was a Parisian Master of Arts known as one of the main supporters of Averroes. “The prince of the averroists” or “Averroes’ monkey,” he was a commentator’s Commentator. Abundantly read, and also...
New Catholic Encyclopedia. JOHN OF JANDUN Averroist master of arts at Paris; b. Jandun, Ardennes, France, c. 1275; d. Todi, Italy, 1328. He studied arts at the University of Paris, where he taught and became an intimate friend of marsilius of padua. In 1316 he obtained a canonry at Senlis. The foremost advocate of Latin Averroism in his day, he ...
JOHN OF JANDUN (c. 1286–c. 1328) John of Jandun, also known as Jean de Jandun and Johannes de Janduno, was foremost among the Averroists at Paris in the fourteenth century. Source for information on John of Jandun (c. 1286–c. 1328): Encyclopedia of Philosophy dictionary.
Jandun presents an investigation of an enigmatic question, namely how the separate intellect engages in simultaneous independent acts of understand-ing, and what effect that has on human psychology.
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Dec 16, 2020 · The aim of this paper is to show that John of Jandun, a French philosopher active in the first decades of the fourteenth century, defended an interesting interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of sense perception. His view on this topic could help us clarify some...
