POLI SCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Al-Farabi, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Active Intellect
1 Oct 2016
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Lecture 3: al farabi: the wise and the faithful (9/27) In uenced by aristotle but did not possess a copy of the politics. The word for politics is derived from the word for city in both greek and arabic. The first ruler without qualification is the one who does not need-not in anything at all-to be ruled by another human being. Rather, he has already attained the sciences and cognitions in actuality and has no need of a human being to guide him in anything. This human being is the king in truth according to the ancients, and he is the one of whom it ought to be said that he receives revelation. For a human being receives revelation only when he obtains this rank, and that is when there remains no intermediary between him and the active intellect. (al farabi, the. The supreme bring can guide others for he has received revelation.
