Jean-Baptiste Brenet French philosopher, professor of the Sorbonne, specialist in the works of Averroes, Arab Aristotelianism of the IX-XII centuries and its interaction with European scholasticism In this book - his first essay translated into Russian - he suggests in some way to start thinking from scratch, that is, to look at the thinking itself with the view of a novice pioneer. Fifteen chapters serve as the first reference points on the map of the world of thought. which the reader will have to rediscover in the light of the heritage of Arab-Latin culture - the amazing phenomenon of the reception of ancient philosophy in the Arab world. From the works of Aristotle , Translated from Greek to Arabic , Commented and retranslated from Arabic into Latin, Return to Western Civilization[edit]