Joshua Parens is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas.
Acknowledgments
vii
Abbreviations
ix
Introduction
1
(8)
Alfarabi's Life and His Influence
3
(2)
Alfarabi's Manner of Writing
5
(2)
Overview
7
(2)
The Impossibility of the City in the Republic
9
(20)
Kallipolis as Ideal State or Totalitarian Nightmare?
12
(2)
The Three Waves and the Problem of Possibility
14
(3)
The First Wave
17
(2)
The Second Wave
19
(3)
The Digression on War
22
(2)
The Third Wave
24
(5)
The A Fortiori Argument
29
(26)
Alfarabi on the Republic in the Attainment of Happiness: Educating Philosopher-kings to Rule the Inhabited World, the Challenge
30
(8)
Tension in the ``Unity of the Virtues'': Hard vs. Soft
38
(9)
The Uneasy Peace between Prudence and Wisdom
47
(8)
Alfarabi on Jihad
55
(22)
From iman vs. kufr to islam vs. harb
58
(2)
Alfarabi's Aphorisms on Jihad
60
(1)
Aphorisms 67 and 79
61
(3)
Aphorisms 11-16
64
(3)
Aphorisms 68--76
67
(5)
Alfarabi's Attainment of Happiness on Jihad
72
(2)
Challenges to Compelling Good Character
74
(3)
The Multiplicity Argument
77
(26)
The Increasing Tendency toward Conquest and Domination
80
(5)
The Task of Deliberation: Shaping a Multiplicity of Characters
85
(8)
The Task of Theoretical Virtue: Shaping a Multiplicity of Opinions
93
(4)
Religion as an Imitation of Philosophy
97
(6)
The Limits of Knowledge and the Problem of Realization
103
(22)
Knowledge and Exploitation
104
(11)
Attainment of Happiness
105
(3)
The Philosophy of Aristotle: The Limits of Our Knowledge of Final Causes
108
(7)
Certainty and the Knowledge of Universals and Particulars
115
(6)
The Limits of Knowledge and the Inherent Multiplicity of Religion
121
(4)
Notes
125
(30)
Bibliography
155
(4)
Subject/Author Index
159
(10)
Index of Passages from Alfawarabi's Attainment of Happiness
169
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