Philart Approach in the Orient and the Occident - Maftouni, Nadia
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The current book is assigned to the allegorical treatises of three major Muslim sages: Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, and Suhrawardi, whom I call philartists. But, what does philartist mean? This idea goes to the heart of Farabi's philosophy. To Farabi, the ultimate utopian end is to achieve intelligible happiness. Given that the public, based on their nature and general habits, are unable to perceive intelligible truths, the path to intelligible happiness must be presented to them via the imagination. The utopian artist who brings intelligible happiness to people's mind through their imagination might be called a philartist.…mehr

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The current book is assigned to the allegorical treatises of three major Muslim sages: Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, and Suhrawardi, whom I call philartists. But, what does philartist mean? This idea goes to the heart of Farabi's philosophy. To Farabi, the ultimate utopian end is to achieve intelligible happiness. Given that the public, based on their nature and general habits, are unable to perceive intelligible truths, the path to intelligible happiness must be presented to them via the imagination. The utopian artist who brings intelligible happiness to people's mind through their imagination might be called a philartist.
Autorenporträt
Nadia Maftouni was born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran. She is an associate professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology at Tehran University. As a student, she studied Islamic philosophy at Hawza ¿Ilmiyya of Mashhad and Tehran University. Before training in philosophy, she had an incomplete education in applied physics at Sharif University of Technology.