Al-Fārābī#Al
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#Al
Al-Fārābī · c. 872–950 CE
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
“He fused Plato's philosopher-king with the prophet-lawgiver of Islam — and quietly suggested that religion is truth's popular translation, philosophy set to pictures.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Reason is not enough on its own — it ripens only inside the right political order. Philosophy needs a city, and religion is philosophy translated into images the whole city can live by.”
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