Decisive Treatise — Averroes
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Issue 01 — Fall 2019 — Session 02 —
Microliteratures: In the Margins of the Law
By Jesús R. Velasco | Published on August 10, 2019
By Jesús R. Velasco | Published on August 10, 2019
Averroes completed this treatise to determine the legal conditions in which philosophy can be used to further the knowledge of the Law. He concludes that it is mandatory for the learned person to interconnect philosophy and legal thinking.
We will be reading from this bilingual, Arabic/English edition:
Ibn Rushd. Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory. Charles Butterworth, ed., and trans. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2001.
Charles Butterworth’s introduction will be extremely useful.
