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- In the Attainment of Happiness, and in some of the texts in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Fârâbî’s main points seem to be that wisdom is a theoretical knowledge which is constitutive of the highest aim for human beings, that the true statesman needs this knowledge, that it is the highest architectonic knowledge (i.e., that it uses the other kinds of knowledge, or is the knowledge of how to use the other kinds of knowledge, so that we will use them well only if we also have wisdom), or sometimes...
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Apr 16, 2019 · al-Farabi’s Philosophy of Logic and Language. First published Tue Apr 16, 2019; substantive revision Tue May 9, 2023. Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (Iraq, c. 870–c. 950) devoted his career to introducing the work of Aristotle to educated Arabic-speaking citizens of the Islamic Empire.
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Nov 22, 2021 · Fârâbî’s starting-point in trying to revive the science of metaphysics and to reconstruct and imitate its classical texts (above all Aristotle’s Metaphysics) is his discussion of the “aim” or “object” [Arabic gharaḍ = Greek skopos] of metaphysics. Fârâbî takes over late ancient philosophers’ assumptions that each of ...
Fârâbî’s interest in the Greek legacy is almost exclusively an interest in the Greek sciences, chiefly philosophy but also mathematics (including astronomy and music theory) and medicine. In this he is typical of Arabic-writing authors, whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish or Sabian.
During the tenth-century, philosopher, scholar, and alchemist Al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950) popularized the philosophical systems of Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato. He integrated their views into his Islam-based metaphysical, psychological, and political theories.
Apr 26, 2019 · Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (259-339 AH / 870-950 AD) is one of the foremost Islamic Philosopher /Logician.
The arts of theology and jurisprudence come after philosophy in time and are dependent upon it. If a religion is dependent upon an uncertain or dubious ancient philosophy, the theology and jurisprudence that are dependent upon it will be in accordance with it.
Jan 1, 2020 · Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, known in the Latin West as Alpharabius or Avenasar, is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Arabic philosophy. Most of his preserved works are introductions to, and abridged or lemmatic commentaries on, Aristotle’s logics.
