FARABİ’NİN FÂZIL ŞEHİR’İNDE AMAÇ VE ARAÇ DEĞERLER
TERMINAL AND INSTRUMENTAL VALUES IN AL-FARABI’S AL-MADINA AL-FADILA (PERFECT STATE)

Summary/Abstract: Farabi is one of the most outstanding philosophers of school of thought that he supported and Islamic Civilization in his age. His most well-known work is “al-Madina al-Fadila” with its common use, which is accepted as a utopia work. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the book of Farabi, al-Madina al-Fadila in the context of terminal and instrumental values that take place in the inventory of Milton Rokeach who is an American social psychologist and comes from a Jewish family. With a specific evaluation, it is tried to determine what kind of values that is what kind of statements of human aspirations are addressed in this work. After the evaluations, it was found that, Farabi focuses on “mature love”, “wisdom”, “helpful”, and “responsible” values and mostly states the values that the leader of al-Madina al-Fadila (Perfect State) must have.

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