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A review by djoshuva
The Legend of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: by Ibn Tufail
5.0
“He says I have “left what every sound mind is born with and abandoned the rule of reason.” I shall grant him that. I have left him and his reason and his “sound minds.” What he means by reason—he and his ilk—is no more than the power to articulate, to abstract a general concept from a
number of sensory particulars, and his “men of sound reason” are simply those whose minds work the same way. But the kind of understanding I am speaking of transcends all this. The man who knows only sense particulars and universals drawn from them had better stop up his ears and go back to his friends, who “know only the surface of this life and are heedless of the next.””
number of sensory particulars, and his “men of sound reason” are simply those whose minds work the same way. But the kind of understanding I am speaking of transcends all this. The man who knows only sense particulars and universals drawn from them had better stop up his ears and go back to his friends, who “know only the surface of this life and are heedless of the next.””