The question of being in Al-Farabi’s egacy and its succession to modern science
Abstract
This study analyses the views of the Arab-Muslim scholar Al-Farabi on reality, life and his judgements on existence. In particular, the significance of his legacy for modern scientific cognition is demonstrated: notions of chaos, vacuum, the coexistence of science and religion, maintaining interdisciplinary links in the direction of research, the application of the integrative methodology, the manifestation of a distinctive model of creative thinking, etc. The methods used include historical research, terminological analysis and systematisation. The cognitive significance of Al-Farabi’s ideas remains present at the current stage of scientific development. In particular, his ideas about chaos can be compared with the innovations of modern natural sciences, and the methods of scientific cognition used by him are an example of the use of modern tools of scientists. Al-Farabi is known all over the world as a philosopher, encyclopedic scientist, doctor, physicist, psychologist, mathematician, astronomer, musician, poet, literary critic, etc. In the metaphysical sphere Al-Farabi was interested in ontological, basic conceptual and concrete, fundamental philosophical problems – formation of ideas of “being” and “non-being”; movement and its types; metaphysical problems of “becoming” and “creation” in a thorough study of form-matter relations; reflections on place and space, the nature of the Creator in the act of world creation, etc. Thus, in his arguments about being, Al-Farabi considers several concepts in philosophy, using them as a categorical apparatus. The philosopher’s basic reasoning about being consists not only of dry philosophy about the world, he addresses physical, and astronomical problems such as vacuum, chaos, and similar reasoning has great relevance to modern times as well. Thus, the revival of the name of Al-Farabi and his legacy today has become one of the main positions of the Turkic people, including the Kazakh, in the context of spiritual modernisation. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of applying its results to actualise the ideas of Al-Farabi
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