Regime (Rule) of the solitary
تدبير المتوحد
Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid
Ibn Bājja (Avempace) (c. 1085–1139)
Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 6th century AH · Listed only
In an imperfect city the philosopher must govern himself alone and perfect his intellect by himself: the political question turns inward.
- Attribution
- authentic: SEP gives it as his Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid, with Asín Palacios's edition and Spanish translation and Dunlop's 1945 article. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”
- Date
- early 12th c., Saragossa, Fez (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
- Editions
- M. Asín Palacios (ed. and Spanish tr.), El régimen del solitario (Madrid, 1946), as cited in the SEP bibliography · cite only checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”
- Translations
- Lawrence Berman in Lerner and Mahdi (1963) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet
Connected works
- Resonance, not influence: Opinions of the people of the virtuous city The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
- Lineage: Republic SEP: Avempace reads and quotes Plato, and turns the analogy the other way: the Republic takes the soul as the model of the city, he starts from the ideal city and carries its order into the solitary soul. A documented reading, with the direction reversed. Confidence: high. checked in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Ibn Bajja [Avempace]”