Medieval · c. 1240–1284
Who influenced Siger of Brabant?
Influences
Radical Aristotelian of Paris whose unorthodox readings earned condemnation and legend.
Siger of Brabant was influenced by Aristotle and Averroes. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Siger of Brabant?
Siger of Brabant was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries and a leading proponent of Averroism in Paris.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Siger of Brabant?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
The line of teachers behind Siger of Brabant
The longest documented line of influence ending at Siger of Brabant runs 12 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Siger of Brabant
Indirect influences
- Through Averroes: Avicenna, Ibn Tufail
- Through Aristotle: Plato
Contemporaries of Siger of Brabant
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Siger of Brabant, with no direct line between them.
- Ramon Llull c. 1232–1315
- Dietrich von Freiberg c. 1250–1310
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Bonaventure 1221–1274
- Meister Eckhart c. 1260–1328
- Roger Bacon c. 1219–1292
- Henry of Ghent c. 1217–1293
Siger of Brabant by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 21
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 27 — #54 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Siger of Brabant
- Who influenced Siger of Brabant?
- Aristotle and Averroes.
- Who did Siger of Brabant influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Siger of Brabant.
- When did Siger of Brabant live?
- c. 1240–1284. The map files Siger of Brabant under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Siger of Brabant card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Siger of Brabant in 27 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415