Al-Farabi's title of ``Second Teacher'' after Aristotle is well-warranted. Al-Farabi's work serves to illuminate the writings of the ``First Teacher'' in interesting and overlooked ways that go beyond the parameters of Aristotelian logic. Credence is lent to this assessment through the analysis of a specific topic, namely, authentic prophetic vision. At first glance, this seems like a strange assertion to make given Aristotle's apparent skepticism and indifference regarding the topic of prophecy. However, as this paper will show, there is a latent theory of prophetic vision in the extant texts of Aristotle that al-Farabi recognizes and completes in a way that is, in large part, faithful to and consistent with the corpus of Aristotle as we read it today. In the end, al-Farabi provides insight into how a properly Aristotelian theory of authentic prophetic vision could be realized.
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