JOSHUA PARENS, Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's “Laws” (Albany: State Universi...
JOSHUA PARENS, Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's “Laws” (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). Pp. 233. $17.95 paper
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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
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With his close reading of Plato's Laws and Republic and of al-Farabi's works--most notably, his Summary of Plato's Laws, but also his Political Regime, Principles of the Opinions of the Inhabitants of the Virtuous City, Enumeration of the Sciences, and the Book of Religion--Parens shows that, for these two authors, politics does not rest on metaphy...
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JOSHUA PARENS, Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's “Laws” (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). Pp. 233. $17.95 paper
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0020-7438
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1471-6380
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10.1017/S0020743804302060
