THEORETICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "TWO REALITIES" IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS OF IBN RUSHD

Abstract

The spiritual harmony of the Middle Ages East and West, as a special necessity, created such individuals who were able to unite several continents at once. For example, the great Arab-Spanish philosopher Ibn Rushd is not only a great philosopher, but he is a bridge connecting Africa and Asia, Asia and Europe, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, Europe rediscovered itself thanks to Ibn Rushd. By translating the works of the great Greek philosophers from Arabic to Spanish, he introduced European peoples to the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, the founders of Greek culture. And in Averroism, the embers of knowledge and reason were brought to light for the first time. This scientific thinking led to the emergence of great intellectuals such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Ibn Rushd is the last major representative of the Eastern school of Peripateticism associated with the term "philosophy" in the medieval Muslim world. He concluded the development of rational and naturalistic worldviews during Eastern Peripateticism.

This article highlights Ibn Rushd's view that religion and philosophy are parallel to each other and that they are the result of the same phenomena as mutually equal logical views that do not contradict each other. The theoretical and ideological foundations of Ibn Rushd's concept of "Two Truths" based on these conclusions are presented. Also, the issue that worries philosophers and theologians alike, various opinions on the harmony of religion and philosophy are presented and comparatively analyzed. We believe that the ideas of medieval philosophers can still influence the debate between religion and philosophy.