| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 170 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Alfarabi's life and his influence -- Alfarabi's manner of writing -- Overview -- The impossibility of the city in the Republic -- Kallipolis as ideal state or totalitarian nightmare? -- The three waves and the problem of possibility -- The first wave -- The second wave -- The digression on war -- The third wave -- The a fortiori argument -- Alfarabi on the Republic in the Attainment of happiness : educating philosopher-kings to rule the inhabited world, the challenge -- Tension in the "unity of the virtues" : hard vs. soft -- The uneasy peace between prudence and wisdom -- Alfarabi on jihâd -- From îmân vs. kufr to Islâm vs. harb -- Alfarabi's Aphorisms on Jihâd -- Aphorisms 67 and 79 -- Aphorisms 11-16 -- Aphorisms 68-76 -- Alfarabi's Attainment of happiness on Jihâd -- Challenges to compelling good character -- The multiplicity argument -- The increasing tendency toward conquest and domination -- The task of deliberation : shaping a multiplicity of characters -- The task of theoretical virtue : shaping a multiplicity of opinions -- Religion as an imitation of philosophy -- The limits of knowledge and the problem of realization -- Knowledge and exploitation -- Attainment of happiness -- The Philosophy of Aristotle : the limits of our knowledge of final causes -- Certainty and the knowledge of universals and particulars -- The limits of knowledge and the inherent multiplicity of religion |
| Summary |
"Joshua Parens provides an introduction to the thought of Alfarabi, a tenth-century Muslim political philosopher whose writings are particularly relevant today. Parens focuses on Alfarabi's Attainment of Happiness, in which he envisions the kind of government and religion needed to fulfill Islam's ambition of universal acceptance. Parens argues that Alfarabi seeks to temper the hopes of Muslims and other believers that one homogeneous religion might befit the entire world and counsels acceptance of the possibility of a multiplicity of virtuous religions. Much of Alfarabi's approach is built upon Plato's Republic, which Parens also examines in order to provide the necessary background for a proper understanding of Alfarabi's thought."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fārābī
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| SUBJECT |
Fārābī fast |
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Farābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Naṣr al- (0870?-0950) -- Critique et interprétation. ram |
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Farābī, Abū-Naṣr Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad al- swd |
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Islamic philosophy.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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Islamic philosophy
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Islamische Philosophie
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Islamitische filosofie.
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Philosophie islamique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005014014 |
| ISBN |
1429411775 |
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9781429411776 |
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0791466892 |
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9780791466896 |
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9780791482124 |
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079148212X |
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