The Commentator
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
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A judge and physician in Córdoba whose commentaries on Aristotle earned him the title the Commentator in Latin Europe.
Key work: The Decisive Treatise
“Truth does not oppose truth but accords with it and bears witness to it.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Reason and revelation are two roads to one truth.
Study the ancients, and keep what is true in them.
A judge and a philosopher can live in one mind.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Two Roads to One TruthDenying Causes
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