The Political Writings -  Alfarabi

The Political Writings

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

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Buch | Hardcover
222 Seiten
2015
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5380-9 (ISBN)
53,60 inkl. MwSt
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...
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.

Charles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.11.2015
Reihe/Serie Agora Editions
Übersetzer Charles E. Butterworth
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 0-8014-5380-1 / 0801453801
ISBN-13 978-0-8014-5380-9 / 9780801453809
Zustand Neuware
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