Ibn Rushd (Averroes) · Philosophy

The Decisive Treatise: Reason and Revelation as Two Roads to One Truth

Averroes&rsquo;s argument that the divine Law itself <em>commands</em> philosophy - that demonstration, dialectic, and rhetoric are three roads for three kinds of minds, and that where Scripture and proof seem to clash, it is the surface of the words, never the truth, that must yield.

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You learned that Averroes held philosophy to be obligatory for those capable of demonstration, that people fall into three classes met by rhetoric, dialectic, and demonstration, and that apparent conflicts between Scripture and proof are resolved by allegorical interpretation ( ta&rsquo;wil ), because &lsquo;truth doe…

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