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Metaphysics as Rhetoric : Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's ""Laws""
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Metaphysics as Rhetoric ; Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. The uniqueness of the Summary of Plato's ""Laws"" ; 2. Alfarabi's unmethodical method of reading Plato ; 3. Alfarabi's access to the Laws ; 4. The Summary's textual tradition: The contemporary debate ; 5. This book's structure ; 6. This book's audience ; Part I. Metaphysics as Rhetorical Foundation of Law ; 1. The Roots of Laws ; 1. Jurisprudence and kalam ; 2. Why are the roots the theme of the Laws and the Summary? ; 3. How philosophical kalam becomes misconstrued as metaphysical doctrine.
- 4. The roots of the laws revisited 2. Alfarabi's Platonism ; 1. Alfarabi as metaphysical Neoplatonist ; 2. Alfarabi as political Middle Platonist: Richard Walzer ; 3. Alfarabi as political Aristotelian: Galston's Politics and Excellence ; 3. Natural Right versus Natural Law ; 1. Plato as ethical theorist of natural law ; 2. Plato as legalistic theorist of natural law; Part II. The Divergence Between Law and Intellect ; 4. Is the Best City Ruled by Law? ; 1. According to the Philosophy of Plato ; 2. According to the Summary ; 5. Plato's City and Alfarabi's Regime.
- 1. Persian monarchy and Athenian democracy 2. The titles to rule ; 3. The ruling offices ; 4. The regime's size ; 6. War as a Purpose of the Second-Best Regime ; 1. The denigration of war as a purpose of the city ; 2. The rehabilitation of war and as a purpose ; 3. The relation between war and law ; 7. Legal Innovation: Law as an Imitation of Intellect ; 1. Changes of place: Differing natural dispositions and customs ; 2. Changes of time: Conservation and innovation ; Part III. Shame, Indignation, and Inquiry ; 8. The Role of Law and Good Breeding ; 1. Prudence and good breeding.
- 2. Shame, law, and honoring the body 3. Good breeding, praise and blame, and honoring the soul ; 9. Pleasure and Indignation ; 1. Divinizing pleasure or undermining shame ; 2. The critique of tragic music as a critique of shame ; 3. War games and drinking parties: Pleasure and indignation ; 10. Poetry and Inquiry into Law ; 1. The permissibility of inquiring into law ; 2. Artisans versus courageous men ; 3. Poetry, kalam, dialectic, and political science ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; X ; Y.