The Comparison On The Philosophy And Social Political Thought Of Al-farabi And Plato

Arab philosophy is an indispensable link in the history of western philosophy. It plays an important role. It is a bridge that associated the medieval philosophy, Oriental and western philosophy.It has extremely important status in the development of western the ancient Greek philosophy. Arab philosophy absorbed the thoughts of ancient Greek philosophy and built its own philosophy. Al-Kindi, as the first Arab philosophers, introduced the ancient Greek philosophy into the Arab world.Al-Farabi is the person who laid the foundation Arab philosophy really and constructed the building of Arab philosophy. Farabi's thoughts was influenced by Plato and Aristotle deeply, but mainly Plato.This article will firstly introduce the Farabi's background systemly, then compare from social thoughts and political thoughts deeply, and expounded the inherition of Farabi to Plato's thoughts and some development and differences in the basic. By these cooperation, this article reveals the source and the feature of Farabi's thoughts.By the cooperation between the thoughts of Farabi and Plato, we can understand more aspects about the successions between the ancient Greek philosophy and the western philosophy. At the same time, it can help us to understand the important role of Arab philosophy in the history of western philosophy.