{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Averroes","description":"Córdoba in the twelfth century was no peaceful paradise for thought. It was a city bristling with rivalries—competing faiths, shifting rulers, and minds wrestling over what counted as truth. Here, philosophy was never just a game of ideas.\r\n\r\nAverroes—born Ibn Rushd—did not come from nowhere. He arrived in a world shaped by law, power, and inherited texts. His family had deep roots in legal authority, and that background would mark everything he did. He wasn’t a solitary genius dreaming in a quiet study. He was a jurist’s son, trained to read with care, to weigh what was said and what was meant, and to decide, not just speculate. This habit of close reading, of seeing order hidden behind confusion, would become one of his deepest philosophical instincts.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 35 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/averroes","author_name":"The Archive Network"}