Alfarabi And Aristotle: The Four Causes And The Four Stages Of The Doc

Alfarabi and Aristotle The Four Causes and The Four Stages of The Doctrine ofThe Intelligence     Alfarabi was raised as a young boy in Baghdad. His early support was washed-outstudying the art of linguistics, philosophy, and logic. His teachers wereSyrian Christians experts in Greek philosophy. He studied Aristotle and Plato indetail, and it became evident in his later belles-lettres that they were a truehearted make on him. He became quite a prolific writer, and he wrote more than 100 chokes, many of which have unfortunately been lost including his a spile of hiscommentaries on Aristotle. He was one and only(a) of the earliest Islamic thinkers totransmit to the world of his time the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle. He isconsidered by many to be the founder of an au indeedtic philosophy. His writingscreated a lot of support, debate, and controversy. He contributed materials onthe proof of the existence of the First Principle, and on the theory ofemanation , as well as the theory of knowledge, in access to his commentarieson Greek philosophers.     The Greek influence is uncontaminatingly present in his works, especially with hisOpinions of the Inhabitants of a Virtuous City, where he laid d let aphilosophical, religious, and favorable ashes for the humanity at large a systemthat sought to break barriers and facilitate relations among people and nations.This work sounded very same to the work presented by Plato in PlatosRepublic. They both took into consideration the matter of city/state, who wasto govern, who was to be governed, how this governing was to take place, how itwas to be enforced, and so on. It also appears clear that he was influencedgreatly by Aristotle. This influence is present in his "Doctrine of theIntellect". The Doctrine of the apprehension was Alfarabis approach to giving hisown interpretation to the intellect.     There are noticeable similarities between Alf arabis Doctrine of theIntellect and Aristotles "Four Causes". Needless to say that they each arecomprised of four-spot stages, but the stages seem very similar, they seem to be exemplar of one another, almost to the point of defining one another. Itwill be demonstrated that Alfarabi used Aristotles "Four Causes" to derive andsupport the Doctrine of the Intellect. Alfarabi draws off of Ar... ... of Alfarabi, then it is clear that there was a strong Aristotelianisminfluence on Alfarabi. This is evident in several of the writings such as in hismentions of the four senses, intellect in potentiality, intellect in actuality,acquired intellect, and with the agent intellect. There are several otherwritings that are credited to Alfarabi that were based on Plato and Aristotle,so there is no real reason to assume that these writings were not those ofAlfarabi.     It appears that Alfarabi uses the basic principles of Aristotle and hasapplied them to his pr inciples of the Doctrine of the Intellect in order torationalize his philosophy. Alfarabi was a philosopher that grabbed stark naked ideasand harnessed them with some of the greatest philosophical minds known to man.He took Aristotle to a new level, doesnt any true philosopher? He embodied thethoughts of previous minds, and unify them with his own and became a verypowerful influence on Islamic philosophy.     It is clear that Aristotle was used to develop his Doctrine of theIntellect. The similarities, the context, and the rational are too similar to endure to anyone else. Alfarabi And Aristotle The Four Causes And The Four Stages Of The Doc Alfarabi and Aristotle The Four Causes and The Four Stages of The Doctrine ofThe Intelligence     Alfarabi was raised as a young boy in Baghdad. His early life was spentstudying the art of linguistics, philosophy, and logic. His teachers wereSyrian Christians experts in Greek philosophy. He studied Aristotle and Plato indetail, and it became evident in his later writings that they were a stronginfluence on him. He became quite a prolific writer, and he wrote more than 100works, many of which have unfortunately been lost including his a lot of hiscommentaries on Aristotle. He was one of the earliest Islamic thinkers totransmit to the world of his time the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle. He isconsidered by many to be the founder of an authentic philosophy. His writingscreated a lot of support, debate, and controversy. He contributed materials onthe proof of the existence of the First Principle, and on the theory ofemanation, as well as the theory of knowledge, in addition to his commentarieson Greek philosophers.     The Greek influence is clearly present in his works, especially with hisOpinions of the Inhabitants of a Virtuous City, where he laid down aphilosophical, religious, and social system for the humanity at large a systemthat sought to break barriers and facilitate relations among people and nations.This work sounded very similar to the work presented by Plato in PlatosRepublic. They both took into consideration the matter of city/state, who wasto govern, who was to be governed, how this governing was to take place, how itwas to be enforced, and so on. It also appears clear that he was influencedgreatly by Aristotle. This influence is present in his "Doctrine of theIntellect". The Doctrine of the intellect was Alfarabis approach to giving hisown interpretation to the intellect.     There are strong similarities between Alfarabis Doctrine of theIntellect and Aristotles "Four Causes". Needless to say that they each arecomprised of four stages, but the stages seem very similar, they seem to berepresentative of one another, almost to the point of defining one another. Itwill be demonstrated that Alfarabi used Aristotles "Four Causes" to derive andsupport the Doctrine of the Intellect. Alfarabi draws off of Ar... ... of Alfarabi, then it is clear that there was a strong Aristotelianisminfluence on Alfarabi. This is evident in several of the writings such as in hismentions of the four senses, intellect in potentiality, intellect in actuality,acquired intellect, and with the agent intellect. There are several otherwritings that are credited to Alfarabi that were based on Plato and Aristotle,so there is no real reason to assume that these writings were not those ofAlfarabi.     It appears that Alfarabi uses the basic principles of Aristotle and hasapplied them to his principles of the Doctrine of the Intellect in order torationalize his philosophy. Alfarabi was a philosopher that grabbed new ideasand harnessed them with some of the greatest philosophical minds known to man.He took Aristotle to a new level, doesnt any true philosopher? He embodied thethoughts of previous minds, and united them with his own and became a verypowerful inf luence on Islamic philosophy.     It is clear that Aristotle was used to develop his Doctrine of theIntellect. The similarities, the context, and the rational are too similar tobelong to anyone else.