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- An individual's life on earth was considered only one part of an eternal journey. The personality was created at the moment of one's birth, but the soul was an immortal entity inhabiting a mortal vessel.
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Nov 22, 2021 · Fundamentally, Fârâbî thinks that there is a series of four questions: first “what X is” seeking the nominal definition of X, which spells out the concept of X in the soul; then “whether X is” in the sense of being-as-the-true, asking whether X exists outside the soul as it does in the soul; then “whether X is” in the sense of ...
Jul 15, 2016 · Al-Farabi sees logic as the path to happiness (Germann, 2015). He also discusses the issue of future contingents. If the truth value of statements on future contingents is immediately determined, i.e., before the event happens, then everything is predetermined and freewill is an illusion.
Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, romanized: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī; c. 870 — 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist.
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Fârâbî is drawing on an interpretation of Aristotle On the Soul III,4 430a6–7, which was taken in late antiquity and the Middle Ages as saying that things that have matter are only potentially intelligible. The implication would be that things that exist without matter would be intelligible of themselves, but that forms existing in matter ...
May 23, 2019 · Alfarabi conceives the soul as a sum of faculties for vital functions. According to his theory of the soul in the Virtuous City, the soul has five major faculties: nutrition, sense, representation, appetite, and reason. Nutrition is the most basic faculty of the soul shared among human beings, plants and animals.
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Aug 11, 2022 · When describing the soul, Farabi combined religion with science. He subscribed to Plato’s idea that the human soul had three main parts, including the appetitive (our desires), the spirited...
Yet, in contrast to Aristotle’s notion of eudaimonia, al-Farabi’s ultimate happiness is a state associated with the afterlife, when, according to his theory of the soul, the soul has separated from the body (see the entry on al-Farabi’s psychology).
