Political ethics in thought of farabi

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Assistant Professor and member faculty of Shahid Beheshti Univesity

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Notes on Farabi's thought is combination of ethics and politics in which his political books called the books of ethics and politics or called simply political ethics. He divided civil philosophy into two sections, a section is civil morality. Due to this, reflecting on Farabi's political ethics is important in order to understand different perspectives op political ethics. Morality is what makes a good or bad result in carnal acts and conditions. Whenever the good morality that related to the human self to join with the power of the mind that related with the wisdom, there comes to virtue. The task of politics is promoting ethics and habits and virtues in society and among the people and explain how it is made is one of the most important tasks of political ethics. In this paper, in addition to the Quiddity of political morality in the minds of Farabi, discuss the position of political moral and it's institutionalized styles in society and so the reasons of diversity of  political ethics in various communities. According to the meaningful application of imagination in his thought, it's would considered.

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