"Political regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws"

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"Political regime" and "Summary of Plato's Laws"

Alfarabi ; translated and annotated and with introductions by Charles E. Butterworth

(Agora editions, . The political writings ; v. 2)

Cornell University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings. Choice Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Political Regime and Summary of Plato's Laws, accompanied by introductions that discuss the background for each work and explore its teaching. In addition, the texts are carefully annotated to aid the reader in following Alfarabi's argument. An Arabic-English/English-Arabic glossary allows interested readers to verify the way particular words are translated. Throughout, Butterworth's method is to translate consistently the same Arabic word by the same English word, rendering Alfarabi's style in an unusually faithful and yet approachable manner.

Table of Contents

Preface Political Regime Introduction The Text Summary of Plato's Laws Introduction The Text Appendix A: Alfarabi, Enumeration of the Sciences Appendix B: Averroes's Defense of the Philosophers as Believing in Happiness and Misery in the Hereafter Glossary A: Arabic-English Glossary B: English-Arabic Bibliography Index

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