Al-Farabi on acquiring a philosophical concept.
This paper focuses on a discussion in Abu Nasr al-Farabi's Book of Letters (Kitāb al-Ḥurūf), which has to do with the importation of philosophical (including scientific) discourse from one language or nation (ummah) to another. The question of importing philosophical discourse from one language or n...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 704 - 725 |
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