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008			050516s2006 nyu b s001 0 eng
010			_a 2005014014
020			_a0791466892 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a9780791466896
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm60401966
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050	0	0	_aB753.F34 _bP27 2006
082	0	0	_a201.5 _bPAR/I
100	1		_aParens, Joshua, _d1961- _99521
245	1	3	_aAn Islamic philosophy of virtuous religions : _bintroducing Alfarabi / _cJoshua Parens.
260			_aAlbany : _bState University of New York Press, _cc2006.
300			_aix, 170 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Alfarabi's life and his influence -- Alfarabi's manner of writing -- Overview -- The impossibility of the city in the Republic -- Kallipolis as ideal state or totalitarian nightmare? -- The three waves and the problem of possibility -- The first wave -- The second wave -- The digression on war -- The third wave -- The a fortiori argument -- Alfarabi on the Republic in the Attainment of happiness : educating philosopher-kings to rule the inhabited world, the challenge -- Tension in the "unity of the virtues" : hard vs. soft -- The uneasy peace between prudence and wisdom -- Alfarabi on jihâd -- From îmân vs. kufr to Islâm vs. harb -- Alfarabi's Aphorisms on Jihâd -- Aphorisms 67 and 79 -- Aphorisms 11-16 -- Aphorisms 68-76 -- Alfarabi's Attainment of happiness on Jihâd -- Challenges to compelling good character -- The multiplicity argument -- The increasing tendency toward conquest and domination -- The task of deliberation : shaping a multiplicity of characters -- The task of theoretical virtue : shaping a multiplicity of opinions -- Religion as an imitation of philosophy -- The limits of knowledge and the problem of realization -- Knowledge and exploitation -- Attainment of happiness -- The Philosophy of Aristotle : the limits of our knowledge of final causes -- Certainty and the knowledge of universals and particulars -- The limits of knowledge and the inherent multiplicity of religion.
600	0	0	_aFārābī.
650		0	_aIslamic philosophy.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005014014.html
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