Ibn Tufail Bücher
Ibn Tufail war ein islamischer Philosoph und Arzt, der für seinen philosophischen Roman „Hayy ibn Yaqdhan“ bekannt ist. In diesem Werk versuchte er, rationales Denken mit religiösem Glauben in Einklang zu bringen und legte damit einen Grundstein für den Naturalismus in der Bildung. Seine Haltung als Arzt, der Sektionen und Autopsien befürwortete, beeinflusste auch sein literarisches Schaffen und bot eine einzigartige Mischung aus wissenschaftlicher Untersuchung und philosophischer Erzählung.
The Journey of the Soul
- 62 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
The Story of Hai bin Yaqzan is a truly remarkable product of 12th-century Moorish Spain. It is widely regarded as the prototype for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Best described, perhaps, as a philosophical romance, it tells the story of a young man, cast upon a deserted island as an infant, suckled and reared by a doe, who succeeds by his own efforts in fitting himself for life in his natural environment. The author, bin Tufail, was one of the outstanding philosophers and scientists of his day, and hence many strands are woven into the fabric of the tale. Hai's physical development is paralleled by his psychological and spiritual development; astonishingly modern ideas on physiology, on the process of evolution, on the "scientific method," all find their place in knowledge which his observation and intuition combine to produce. Above all, the book is an allegory of the path towards enlightenment.