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#virtuous-city
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Al-Fārābī’s virtuous city looks different on a bad day in a bookshop
I keep a secondhand bookshop off Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. My uncle rebuilt it after the bombing in 2007. On quiet afternoons I read al-Farabi, who lived and taught in this city a thousand years before me. In The Opinions of the…
Started by Zainab Kadhim5 replies159 views -
Al-Fārābī’s virtuous city and Plato’s philosopher-king: the same answer for different reasons?
I keep a bookshop off Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the city where al-Fārābī did much of his work a thousand years ago. On bad days I find it hopeful that someone here once believed a city could be organised around wisdom. Al-Fārābī's…
Started by Zainab Kadhim4 replies168 views -
Al-Farabi’s Virtuous City and Plato’s Republic
Al-Farabi (c. 870–950) is sometimes called the "Second Teacher", after Aristotle. His Principles of the Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City combines Neoplatonic metaphysics with a political philosophy that owes a great deal to Plato's Republic. The virtuous city is…
Started by Layla Haddad3 replies156 views