No one in the history of philosophy has been as influential as Aristotle. As we will see in Chapter 9, he was greatly admired by some Arab philosophers, even slavishly so by Averroes. Chapter 10 tells how Aristotle became influential in Christian Europe in the 1200s, when his thought was reconciled with Christianity by Thomas Aquinas. In the high Middle Ages Aristotle was known simply as “The Philosopher,” and Averroes as “The Commentator.” After Aquinas the study of Aristotle became the center of university education.
