I have a final exam coming up and my prof hinted that the question of Averroes and Aquinas and their thoughts on philosophy and natural reason vs. religion and revelation would be mentioned.
So I’m planning on researching it now to get a head start.
From what I’ve gathered Averroes believes that religion and philosophy can indeed be compatible and consolidated. He states that God should be seen as an ultimate end. The overall arching embodiment of God is truth and reason. There are three ways of acquiring it - rhetoric, emperical study, dialectic. So rhetoric and dialectic being religion and every day discussion, ane emperical being obviously philosophy or science. Religion was a “simplified”, rhetorical way of understanding philosophical truth ie. the burning bush and Moses weren’t real people they were stories that helped explain the concept of natural law and purity.
Now where this runs in with Aquinas I’ve having trouble with. From what I understand Aquinas believed that religion was a means to understanding truth as well but you do it for different reasons?
Help is appreciated, maybe we can get a discusison going.
Religion is the true winner in any war,
because it causes destruction.
God is the excuse of Religion,
TimeCube is the answers humanity has been forsaken from,for many thousand years,and yet it has been exposed as a "big joke’ instead of being tooken into a serious aspect of Mind Body and Spirit.