The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes

This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and related texts in which three Medieval philosophers proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness).

Salim Kemal

Chapter 1 Philosophical Poetics; Chapter 2 Alfarabi, Logic and Poetry; Chapter 3 Avicenna; Chapter 4 Poetics, Morality and Society; Chapter 5 Prelude to Truth; Chapter 6 Averroës, Truth and Metaphor;