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HoP 148 - Fantasy Island - Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Ibn Tufel's Avocenin

Hai Ibn Yachdan is a dramatization of Avocenin's idea that the philosopher can do it all on his own. Galenic Anatomy juxtaposed with an immaterialist theory of soul may give rise to an eternal universe, he says. The two meet in scenes after a mind-dus of Robinson Crusoe's encounter with Friday.

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