Ibn Bājja (Avempace)#Ibn
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Ibn Bājja (Avempace) · c. 1085–1138
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“He flipped al-Fārābī's insult into a badge: in a sick society, health looks like deviance — and the wise person's task is not to flee the city but to survive it with their soul intact.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“When the city is corrupt, the person of truth becomes a "weed" — and must learn to govern their own soul by a private regimen while living, outwardly ordinary, among neighbors who cannot understand them.”
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