POLI1041 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sophist, Al-Farabi, Quran
1 Apr 2014
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The attainment of happiness: in 900, he singlehandedly recovered plato and aristotle"s works, established the main philosophic tradition in the middle east. First monotheistic to read through plato and ponder justice: lived in present day baghdad where the koran ruled. If republic agrees with the koran, there would be no point in reading. If it disagrees, then it"s blasphemy: never mentions islam once in his books, fall of rome and emergence of monotheism, 3 great monotheistic religions: christianity, islam, judaism. Love your god, love your neighbor: christianity and islam can be seen as exactly alike in terms of scope of religion because they are universal religion meant for all of humanity looking for converts. Islam = prophetalizing law: philosophy precedes religion in time, religion is an imitation of philosophy, story of the ascetic, ascetic wants to flee a tyrant guards are out to het him. The vulgar confine themselves to opinions rely on persuasion/imagination.
