Ibn Bajja (Avempace)

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  8 / 10
• SSSovereign Self

  8 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  7 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Heloise of ArgenteuilCARTOGRAPHER

  Letters to Abelard — love as the truest motive, not law or duty.

• Muhammad IqbalLIGHTHOUSE

  Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam — the ego as God's collaborator.

• Peter AbelardCARTOGRAPHER

  Conceptualism — universals as concepts in the mind, neither things nor names.

• Mary AstellCARTOGRAPHER

  Reason is not gendered. Education for women. Friendship as the truest love.

• Albertus MagnusCARTOGRAPHER

  Aristotle baptized — natural philosophy as a path to divine wisdom.

• Anselm of CanterburyCARTOGRAPHER

  Faith seeking understanding; the ontological argument from definition.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Ibn Bajja (Avempace)'s thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.