Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle

Informationen zum Autor Muhsin Mahdi is James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, Emeritus, in the Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Charles E. Butterworth is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Thomas L. Pangle is the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Muhdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the book, "Attainment of Happiness", "Philosophy of Plato", and "Philosophy of Aristotle", provide a philosophical foundation for Alfarabi's political works. Zusammenfassung This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the...

Product details

• Authors: Alfarabi, Farabi, Muhsin Mahdi
• Assisted by: Muhsin Mahdi (Translation)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2001
• EAN: 9780801487163
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8716-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Agora Editions; Agora Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day