Avenpace

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Avenpace (also known as Ibn Badjdja) (c. 1138) was a high dignitary in Islamic Spain. He wrote commentaries on works by Aristotle, whom he interpreted in terms of Neo-Platonism. His treatise The Hermit's Guide was his most famous. THE IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN REASON - Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan - by

Ibn Tufail (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi) [1]

Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by Simon Ockley in(1708) was a tretise on Avenpace and his philosophy. it was entitled

              The Improvement of

                 HUMAN REASON,

           Exhibited in the LIFE of

              _Hai Ebn Yokdhan_:

     Written in _Arabick_ above 500 Years
      _ago, by _Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail_.

          In which is demonstrated,

     By what Methods one may, by the meer
     LIGHT OF NATURE, attain the Knowledg
     of things NATURAL and SUPERNATURAL;
     more particularly the Knowledg of God,
     and the Affairs of another Life.

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