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Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws

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Parens argues that Alfarabi, the tenth-century Muslim philosopher, demonstrated that Plato is not the originator of Western metaphysics, and that what appears to be Plato's metaphysics was intended as a rhetorical defense of his politics.

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Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws 1995, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791425749

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Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's "laws" 1995, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791425732

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