Analogy in Farabi's Thought

International Journal of Political Science

مقاله 5، دوره 1، شماره 2، اسفند 2011، صفحه 47-67   

نوع مقاله: Original Article

نویسندگان

Hatam Ghaderi؛ Reza Akbari Nouri^* ؛ Mostafa Yunesi

چکیده

Thinkers and philosophers have constantly benefited from different         approaches of reasoning to explore and justify their ideas. Theses reasoning            approaches are considered as the principle instruments in speculative activities of the thinkers. To this end to achieve the procedure of thinking and the way philosophers achieve objectives, it is necessary to recognize their reasoning strategies. This article intends to survey on the position of analogy in the thinking of Farabi, and to show how he used this type of analogy as one of his basic reasoning methods in exploring his ideas and thoughts.