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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle

Alfarabi ; translated, with an introduction by Muhsin Mahdi

(Agora editions)(Cornell paperbacks)

Cornell University Press, 2001

Rev. ed., with a foreword / by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle

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First published: Glencoe : Free Press , 1962

Includes index

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"Alfarabi is now considered to be the founder of Muslim philosophy, and proves to be not simply the bridge for carrying over the thought of Aristotle and Plato into Western thought but a man of great originality.... Muhsin Mahdi makes clear that Alfarabi is not a popularizer but a man of great subtlety of thought and one who discerns the significance of Plato unmixed with Neo-Platonic philosophy."―Choice 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.

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