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An Islamic philosophy of virtuous religions : introducing Alfarabi /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.