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The Decisive Treatise

A work by Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The business of philosophy is to study creation in order to be guided to its Creator, Philosophical reasoning is no forbidden innovation just because it did not exist in early Islam, We should study what the ancients wrote, accept what is true and be warned by what is wrong …

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  • Connections

    Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. Mohammad Jamil-ur-Rehman, 19212
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The business of philosophy is to study creation in order to be guided to its Creator (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Philosophical reasoning is no forbidden innovation just because it did not exist in early Islam (opens korrents.com)1

  3. We should study what the ancients wrote, accept what is true and be warned by what is wrong (opens korrents.com)1

  4. No one can discover alone everything a science or an art requires (opens korrents.com)1

  5. A useful thing should not be banned because it harms some people by accident (opens korrents.com)1

  6. People come to belief in different ways: some through philosophy, some through argument, some through exhortation (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Sources

  1. A Decisive Discourse on the Delineation of the Relation between Religion and Philosophy (tr. Mohammad Jamil-ur-Rehman, 1921) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. A Decisive Discourse on the Delineation of the Relation between Religion and Philosophy (tr. Mohammad Jamil-ur-Rehman, 1921) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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