Al-Farabi and Cultural Policy-Making
A. Salmani; B. Nikpey
Abstract
Farabi did not deal with art and beauty in a special and separate way, and he has no other writings in this field, except for a work entitled "Great Music", which has a scientific and mathematical perspectives. Therefore, his principal fame is due to his extraordinary opinions in the field of politics ...
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Farabi did not deal with art and beauty in a special and separate way, and he has no other writings in this field, except for a work entitled "Great Music", which has a scientific and mathematical perspectives. Therefore, his principal fame is due to his extraordinary opinions in the field of politics and political philosophy. He considers the goal of individual and collective human life to be reaching happiness. But he considers life in a perfect and virtuous society to be necessary for a person to achieve happiness. Man should be raised and educated in such a society to reach happiness, which is a political goal and of course otherworldly. The teacher and guide must be able to use his imagination to reach the useful mind. It is from this channel that artists play a key role in Farabi's utopia and are ranked next to the head of Medina. The two concepts of imagination and simulation, on the one hand, in the education of citizens, and on the other hand, in the creation of works of art, highlight the dignity and social-political position of artists. Farabi's definition of beauty is based on the concept of perfection. In fact, perfection is beauty, even though perfection is happiness. With such an attitude, it can be concluded that the whole of Farabi's political philosophy has an aesthetic aspect, and in this way, the elements of his political aesthetics can be compiled. In this article, by using the collection of library information and the descriptive-analytical method, elements such as happiness, imagination and similes have been examined and addressed the definition of beauty that Farabi has based on perfection.
Saiedeh Ghasemi; Seyed Mahdi Sajadi; Mohsen Imani
Abstract
One of profound problems in human interactions is dogmatism. A dogmatist is so certain about his or her thoughts that assumes them perennial and indispensable, as a result would acquire an offensive morale and pertinacity against the others' attitudes and try to deny them. This kind of behavior leads ...
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One of profound problems in human interactions is dogmatism. A dogmatist is so certain about his or her thoughts that assumes them perennial and indispensable, as a result would acquire an offensive morale and pertinacity against the others' attitudes and try to deny them. This kind of behavior leads to a distortion in human interactions and to a conflict between individuls in different social levels, including family and various groups and fractions, and even between two societies. After describing dogmatism and aesthetics, this article analyzes the dogmatists ideas and then it discusses the rules and methods based on social education. After that aesthetic principles based on different scientists’ ideas and the social-educational rules, which can be underestood from these aesthetic principles, will be discussed. Ultimately some aesthetic –social principles, derived from aesthetic- social education will be presented. This essay also deals. with using the above-mentioned principles via educational system to reform the negative effects of dogmatic-social education.
