Abu Nasr al-Farabi · Philosophy
Why the Islamic world crowned al-Farabi <em>al-Mu’allim al-Thani</em>, ‘the Second Teacher,’ after Aristotle the First: he recovered, ordered, and transmitted the whole Greek philosophical inheritance into Arabic, and in the <em>Enumeration of the Sciences</em> drew a single map of all knowledge, from language and logic up to metaphysics and politics.
You learned that al-Farabi earned the title ‘Second Teacher’ by systematizing and transmitting Greek philosophy into Arabic, and that his Enumeration of the Sciences mapped every science - language, logic, mathematics, physics, metaphysics, and civil science - into a single ladder, with logic as the instru…
Leads to Aristotle.
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