Department of Religions & Philosophy, Faculty of Literature & Foreign Languages, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
Abstract: (1472 Views)
Surveying the problem of emanation in Farabi's view, has some difficulties like that does for Farabi this problem is a fundamental problem in metaphysics or a secondary one? In this issue we are confronted with two main difficulties: one is that some scholars doubted to two Farabi's works that he discussed there the problem of emanation, mean Fosus Al-hekam and Ouoon Al-masael. They cannot say that these two books certainly are Farabi's books. But the more difficult problem is that Farabi's views on the problem of emanation are different in his works. It seem that some of Farabi's books are basically written in the Aristotelian context and some of his books are from his personally views. In addition, there is another difficulty: Farabi discussed the problem of emanation in some of his books that are not basically metaphysical but are psychological. In the present article, we try to survey these difficulties in Farabi's works.
Article Type:
Original Research |
Subject:
Metaphysics (Islamic) Received: 2022/11/20 | Accepted: 2023/02/10 | Published: 2023/03/10
* Corresponding Author Address: Faculty of Literature & Foreign Languages, University of Kashan, Qotb-Ravandi Boulevard, Kashan, Iran. Postal Code: 8731753153 (ahmadizade@kashanu.ac.ir) |
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