Article ID: CBB000931200

On the Authorship of the Treatise On the Harmonization of the Opinions of the Two Sages Attributed to Al-Fārābī (2009)

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he present article aims to show that the treatise On the Harmonization of the Opinions of the Two Sages the Divine Plato and Aristotle cannot have been written by al-Farabi. It considers to this end four crucial issues treated in this work, concerning (1) divine Providence and the particulars, (2) Platonic Ideas and the divine Intellect, (3) creation ex nihilo and (4) the divine attribute of `will'. It establishes in each case that the thesis defended by the author is contrary to al-Farabi's doctrine and akin to that of Yaxs1E25ya ibn `Adi. This twofold result prompts us to suggest that the author should be associated with Ibn `Adi and his milieu; it also suggests a new periodization of 10th century Arabic philosophy. Rather than imagining a Kindian phase followed by a ``school of Baghdad'' extending from al-Farabi's masters to the age of Avicenna, we should postulate that some of al-Farabi's followers returned to al-Kindi in the field of cosmology, for theological reasons.

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Authors & Contributors
Janos, Damien
Bertolacci, Amos
Adamson, Peter
Thom, Paul
Streetman, W. Craig
Schoeler, Gregor
Concepts
Philosophy
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Logic
Transmission of ideas
Aristotelianism
Philosophy and religion
Time Periods
Medieval
10th century
Ancient
11th century
9th century
13th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Europe
Andalusia (Spain)
Byzantium
Greece
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