2. A Responsibility to Seek the Truth: Revisiting Averroes’s for Academic Freedom’s Missing Imperative

This article argues that, in contemporary formulations of academic freedom, insufficient attention has been given over to the responsibility to seek the truth, as one which provides a moral precondition for the more common assertion of academic freedom as the right to speak the truth. The article seeks to restore something of this balance by looking at Averroes’s text the