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Title:
Alfarabi's Book of dialectic (Kitāb al-jadal) : on the starting point of Islamic philosophy
Author:
Fārābī, author.
ISBN:
9781108277822
Uniform Title:
Jadal. English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
General Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Oct 2019).
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Alfarabi's Kitāb al-Jadal: Complete English Translation; 2. Dialectic and Political Science; 3. Dialectic and the Principles of all Science; 4. Dialectic and the Method of Natural and Divine Science; 5. Dialectic and Education; 6. Conclusion: Alfarabi and the Taxonomy of the Medieval Arabic Organon; Glossary A: English-Arabic; Glossary B: Arabic-English; References; Index.
Abstract:
Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his successors in the medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian communities, Alfarabi was a leading figure in the fields of Aristotelian logic and Platonic political science. The first complete English translation of his commentary on Aristotle's Topics, Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic, or Kitāb al-Jadal, is presented here in a deeply researched edition based on the most complete Arabic manuscript sources. David M. DiPasquale argues that Alfarabi's understanding of the Socratic art of dialectic is the key prism through which to grasp his recovery of an authentic tradition of Greek science on the verge of extinction. He also suggests that the Book of Dialectic is unique to the extent to which it unites Alfarabi's logical and political writings, opening up novel ways of interpreting Alfarabi's influence.
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