Description
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 book, Attainment of Happiness, Philosophy of Plato, and Philosophy of Aristotle, provide a philosophical foundation for Alfarabi's political works.
Author: Alfarabi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/12/2002
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.53w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780801487163
ISBN10: 0801487161
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | General
- Philosophy | Eastern
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical
About the Author
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.