#IbnTufayl

“Five hundred years before the Enlightenment asked what unaided reason could achieve, an Andalusian court physician answered with a story: a baby, a gazelle, an empty island — and, at the end of the climb, everything.”

“A human mind, raised utterly alone with no teacher, no language, and no scripture, could reason its way from suckling to the summit of metaphysics — and what it found there would match what the prophets taught, told in a different register.”