Ibn Tufail

The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

The Improvement of HUMAN REASON, Exhibited in the LIFE of Hai Ebn Yokdhan: Written in Arabick above 500 Years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, By what Methods one may, by the meer Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg of things Natural and Supernatural; more particularly the Knowledg of God, and the Affairs of another Life. Illustrated with proper FIGURES, Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by SIMON OCKLEY, A. M. Vicar of Swanesey in Cambridgshire. With an APPENDIX, In Which the Possibility of Man's attaining the True Knowledg of GOD, and Things necessary to Salvation, without Instruction, is briefly consider'd.