PHIL 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Averroes, Al-Farabi, Jared Diamond
19 Apr 2016
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Not european nor ethnic arab from turkmenistan region. Abu nasr al-farabi his full name he travelled to baghdad for his higher education, one of the great centres of learning in middle ages along with damascus, syria. So he sees islam as the culmination of plato"s republic. Notice the fascination with aristotle; first time we see plato"s influence, because not much of his work was available and islamic scholars saw plato and aristotle as having similar view plato becomes influential in the. The political regime: al-farabi first islamic philosopher who tried to confront and harmonize political philosophy with classical islam. Islam a very political religion, whereas in christianity there was a distinction between politics and religion political philosophy very important for religion of islam. Hobbes, aristotle community necessary for a good life, human beings naturally social beings. Food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power pg.
