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> But the notion that science should trump religion is modern. Not particularly: in both the Medieval and Islamic worlds, the writings of Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
> But the notion that science should trump religion is modern.
Not particularly: in both the Medieval and Islamic worlds, the writings of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) introduced this concept. And, then as now, it depended on an irrationalism about religion (or a view that religion was a sort of noble lie for controlling the masses) that was widely rejected by the medievals who tended to prefer a harmony model of natural reason and revelation.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> in both the Medieval and Islamic worlds, the writings of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) introduced this concept That isn't "the scientific method replac[ing] religion as the explanation for physical phenomena," it isn't a society being organised around the principle of scientific supremacy, it's a single leading thinker being ahead of their time. The Almoravids were a conservative Islamic society.