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al-Farabi: al-Farabi (c. 872–950) Islamic philosopher born in Persia. Major works include "The Virtuous City" and "The Book of Letters." Explored ethics, political philosophy, and metaphysics. Known for integrating Greek thought into Islamic philosophy, emphasizing virtue, and contributing to Neoplatonism.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Otfried Höffe on al-Farabi - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 122
Al-Farabi/Höffe: Al-FarabiVsAl-Kindi: al-Fārābī (around 870-950), strongly opposes al-Kindī.
Höffe I 123
Aristotle/al-Farabi: It is not clear in which form Plato's Politeia was present to al-Fārābī ; only individual sections of Aristotle's politics were known to him.
>Aristotle
, >Politics/Aristotle.
Religion/Philosophy/Islam: Al-Fārābī does not criticize Islam, because like al-Kindī he is convinced that philosophy and religion represent the same truth. Philosophy with its concepts and arguments has to serve the religion operating with pictures and parables.
>Philosophy, >Religion.
Politics/al-Farabi: here especially the writing Mabādi' ārā ahl al-madīna al-fādila [is authoritative]: The principles of the views
Höffe I 124
of the inhabitants of an excellent state (942/43), in short: The Excellent State or the Model State. (Madīna may literally mean "city", but in this case the text is about a community, a state).
>Politics, >State (Polity).
al-FarabiVsAristotle: From a philosophical-historical point of view, [the scripture] consists of a commitment to Plato and New Platonism. In contrast to Aristotle, the excellent state has its place in a metaphysically founded overall structure of being.
>Plato, >Being.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
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