Ibn Rushd On Harmony Between Philosophy And Religion

Ibn Rushd is the synthesizer of Arabic philosophy,he conducted translation and commentary work on most of the work authored by Aristotle,and committed enormous contribution to Arabic philosophy development,meanwhile his idea of reconciling Greek philosophy and law religion has quite an impact on the medieval European scholasticism.During the middle age,Greek science and philosophy had a tremendous attraction to Arabians,they introduced and translated many famous ancient Greek philosophy books,and carried out commentary,annotation and performing.And as the introduced heterogeneous culture,Greek culture,especially Greek philosophy,is hard to avoid the conflict between Arabic Islam tradition,so the reconcile work for faith and reason,philosophy and religious relations appears to be of essence,this is the significance task placed in front of Muslim scholars.Began with Kendi,Farabi,Ibn Tufili and many other Arabian philosophers had commence the reconcile the relationships between faith and reason,in these reconciling theory results,the impact of Ibn Rushd's reconcile theory is especially evident.He reckons that there are no conflict between philosophy and religions.Religious truth came from enlightenment,and philosophical truth came from reason.The different cognition range of the both had cause their differences.For this purpose,he expounded reconcile theory and depicted the <About the Consistency Between Religion and Philosophy> on the basis of the precious Arabian philosophy ideologies.He reckoned what philosophy and religion brings in are all truths,truth and truth can be a supplement to each other,rather than contradict and contrary.And he reckoned philosophy and religion each has their own activity level,nothing more than different emphasize places.After Ibn Rushd's theory had introduce to western Europe,dual true theory and Averroes-ism have generated and spread out,accordingly aroused a blast of freethinking waves,and had a deep impact on later generation's renaissance.The conciliationism traditions of Ibn Rushd and other Arabian philosophers,continued development all through middle age to modern Arabian society,is the timely reaction when traditional Islamic civilization encounters different cultures,for Islam world to absorbs other civilization's essences,carrying forward owncivilization's results have a significant meaning.For the origin of modern Islam thought movement and contemporary Arab world,the study on many ideological possesses a certain amount of practical significance.