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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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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The uniqueness of the Summary of Plato's "Laws"
- Alfarabi's unmethodical method of reading Plato
- Alfarabi's access to the Laws
- The Summary's textual tradition: the contemporary debate
- This book's structure
- This book's audience. I. Metaphysics as rhetorical foundation of law. The roots of the laws: jurisprudence and kalâm; why are the roots the theme of the Laws and the Summary?; how philosophic kalâm becomes misconstrued as metaphysical doctrine; the roots of the laws revisited
- Alfarabi's Platonism: Alfarabi as metaphysical neoplatonist; Alfarabi as political middle platonist, Richard Walzer; Alfarabi as political Aristotelian: Galston's Politics and excellence
- Natural right vs. natural law: Plato as ethical theorist of natural law; Plato as legalistic theorist of natural law.
- II. The divergence between law and intellect. Is the best city ruled by law?: according to the Philosophy of Plato; according to the Summary
- Plato's city and Alfarabi's regime: Persian monarchy and Athenian democracy; the titles to rule; the ruling offices; the regime's size
- War as a purpose of the second-best regime: the denigration of war as a purpose of the city; the rehabilitation of war as a purpose; the relation between war and law
- Legal innovation, law as an imitation of intellect: changes of place, differing natural dispositions and customs; changes of time, conservation and innovation.
- III. Shame, indignation, and inquiry. The rule of law and good breeding: prudence and good breeding; shame, law, and honoring the body; good breeding, praise and blame, and honoring the soul
- Pleasure and indignation: divinizing pleasure or undermining shame; the critique of tragic music as a critique of shame; war games and drinking parties, pleasure and indignation
- Poetry and inquiry into law: the permissibility of inquiring into law; artisans vs. courageous men; poetry, kalâm, dialectic, and political science.