Philosophy of Religion Research
Alliance of Philosophy and Religion from Farabi's View
Document Type : Original Research
Authors
1 Associate Professor at the Department of Islamic Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad, Iran
2 Researcher of Islamic Philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
The present article is trying to study the alliance of religion and philosophy, from Farabi's view, by citing to his works. In this regard, first, we analyzed the historical reasons for the need for philosophy, then we will introduce the Farabi's purposes for constitution of this alliance, through which the necessity of this alliance becomes clear. The main claim of the article is that Farabi correlates the two through two different ways. The first depends upon the historical procedure of the emergence of the language. Accordingly, philosophy would be chronologically prior to religion. And in the second way, he explains the relation between the two, by considering their methodological distinctions, toward pedagogy. Then we can claim that the first way is criticizable but the second is defensible.
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