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al-Farabi
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al-Farabi [ˈælfəˈrɑːbɪ]
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(Biographies / al-Farabi, Mohammed ibn Tarkhan (death date: 950) Mnational of birth: Asian, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, MEDICINE: physician, SCIENCE: mathematician) Mohammed ibn Tarkhan. died 950, Muslim philosopher, physician, and mathematician, of central Asian origin


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Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 154 ff.
Topics include prudence, imagination, and determination of law in Alfarabi and Maimonides; Averroes, Dante, and the dawn of European Enlightenment; law and innovation in Machiavelli's Prince; Adam Smith on natural liberty and moral corruption; Tocqueville's understanding of "conditions of equality" and "conditions of inequality;" Plato and relativism; and the political philosophy of Leo Strauss.
 
 
 
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