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    Every human being can attain individual felicity of the h... — Carmelics
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    Every human being can attain individual felicity of the hereafter

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    • 1.Attaining felicity of the hereafter requires learning about common objects of knowledge
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    • 2.Common objects of knowledge can be learned in at least two ways
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    • 1.Al-Farabi holds that theoretical intellect must reach actualization for felicity, a process requiring sustained philosophical education.
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    • 2.Sustained philosophical education is structurally unavailable to those in deficient political regimes, which Al-Farabi himself identifies as the majority of actual cities.
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    • 3.Therefore, the material conditions for universal felicity are systematically absent for most human beings under Al-Farabi's own political philosophy.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of natural slavery, influential on medieval Islamic Aristotelianism, holds that some humans lack the rational capacity for full eudaimonia.
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    • 2.If cognitive variation across humans is sufficiently deep and innate, the universalist claim requires denying that felicity tracks rational actualization at all.
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    • 3.Denying that felicity tracks rational actualization contradicts the Farabian framework's own intellectualist account of what felicity consists in.
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    Every human being, thus, can attain the individual felicity of the hereafter,[21] provided, that is, that she learns about the common objects in one of these two ways. It is the duty of society or, more precisely, of the ruler of the excellent city to ensure that everyone is taught these things according to her capacities. In this connection, now, as will be discussed in section 4, religion as the ‘art of persuasion’ has its specific place and significance. Concerning al-Farabi’s notion of s
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