Abu Nasr al-Farabi · Philosophy
al-Farabi’s political masterpiece: the <em>excellent city</em> (<em>al-Madina al-Fadila</em>), modelled on the healthy body and the ordered cosmos, ruled by a philosopher who has reached the truth - and the ignorant, wicked, and errant cities that are his diagnoses of every way a community can fail.
You learned that al-Farabi’s excellent city is built on cooperation for a shared end - true happiness - and is ordered like a healthy body under its ruling organ; that its first ruler must be a philosopher (and prophet); and that its failures fall into ignorant, wicked, and errant cities. Explain these ideas in…
Leads to Plato.
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