Hayy ibn Yaqzan (The Improvement of Human Reason)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 1 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~32,400 words · 154 passages
Cite this work
- APAIbn Tufayl. (n.d.). Hayy ibn Yaqzan (The Improvement of Human Reason). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ibn-tufayl/hayy-ibn-yaqzan-the-improvement-of-human-reason
- MLAIbn Tufayl. "Hayy ibn Yaqzan (The Improvement of Human Reason)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ibn-tufayl/hayy-ibn-yaqzan-the-improvement-of-human-reason.
- ChicagoIbn Tufayl. Hayy ibn Yaqzan (The Improvement of Human Reason). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/ibn-tufayl/hayy-ibn-yaqzan-the-improvement-of-human-reason.
What it is about
Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel.
Context and history
A child grows up alone on a desert island and, with no teacher, language or revelation, arrives by himself at physics, metaphysics and the knowledge of God. Written in twelfth-century al-Andalus. Translated into Latin in 1671, it was read by Locke and by Defoe: the ancestor of Robinson Crusoe and, at once, an argument about what reason alone can do.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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