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Double-truth theory is "the view that religion and philosophy, as separate sources of knowledge, might arrive at contradictory truths without detriment to either". [ 1 ] Latin Averroism
Averroes depicted in a painting by Italian artist Andrea di Bonaiuto.Florence, 14th century. Averroism refers to a school of medieval philosophy based on the application of the works of 12th-century Andalusian philosopher Averroes, (known in his time in Arabic as ابن رشد, ibn Rushd, 1126–1198) a commentator on Aristotle, in 13th-century Latin Christian scholasticism.
Without a foundation in the conventional truth the significance of the ultimate cannot be taught. Without understanding the significance of the ultimate, liberation is not achieved. [29] In Nāgārjuna's own words: 8. The teaching by the Buddhas of the Dharma has recourse to two truths: The world-ensconced truth and the truth which is the ...
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The Verge of Philosophy (2007) Topographies (2006) Platonic Legacies (2004) On Translation (2002) Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental (2000) Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's "Timaeus" (1999) Shades: Of Painting at the Limit (1998) Double Truth (1995) Stone (1994) Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy (1991) Echoes: After ...
Another Averroist, John Baconthorpe proposed that there is an ontological and an epistemological aspect of the union between the unique intellect and the body, developing a theory that is called the "double conjunction" (Latin: copulatio bifaria). [5] He argues that thanks to the ontological conjunction, the intellect becomes a human faculty. [5]
Dante and Beatrice in Paradise. Siger of Brabant is depicted with red cloak, top right (MS Thott 411.2, 15th century). Siger of Brabant (Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri or Sygerius de Brabantia; c. 1240 – before 10 November 1284) was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries who was an important proponent of Averroism.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. [1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy .