Metaphysics As Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's "Laws" (Middle East - Brossura

Parens, Joshua

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0791425746 ISBN 13: 9780791425749

Casa editrice: State University of New York Press, 1995

Riassunto

The most widely accepted view in the West today, particularly among postmodernists, is that Plato attempted to ground politics on a rational metaphysics and initiated the tradition of foundationalism that has given rise to systems of oppression ranging from racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism to the technological mastery of the earth. Metaphysics as Rhetoric controverts this view, arguing that Plato was not the originator of this metaphysical tradition. Using as a basis the tenth-century Muslim philosopher Alfarabi's interpretation of Plato, especially his Summary of Plato's "Laws", Parens shows that what appears to be Plato's metaphysics was intended as a rhetorical defense of his politics. Parens demonstrates that rather than seek to establish politics on the definitive metaphysical ground, Alfarabi's Plato analyzes politics on its own terms, phenomenologically.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Joshua Parens is Bradley Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791425746
• ISBN 13: 9780791425749
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile