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Alfarabi
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Attainment of Happiness
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Ayurveda
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Buddhism
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Classical philosophy
Compassion
Confucianism
contemporary
continental philosophy
Cosmology
deconstruction
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Ethical theories
Ethics
Greek philosophy
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Islamic thought
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Metaphysics
Muhsin Mahdi
Muslim philosophy
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801487163
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the book, "Attainment of Happiness," "Philosophy of Plato," and "Philosophy of Aristotle," provide a philosophical foundation for Alfarabi's political works.
Muhsin Mahdi is James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, Emeritus, in the Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Charles E. Butterworth is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Thomas L. Pangle is the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
