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In this work I try to point out the basic ideas of Al-Fârâbî's political philosophy. In the first part of the text, I attempt to investigate the main terms of reference of Al- Fârâbî's philosophy, and to explain the political and cultural context of the Islamic world during Al-Fârâbî's life. In the second part I try to show, by using a comparative method, the diff erences and similarities between Plato's and Al-Fârâbî's political philosophy and to point out the originality of Al-Fârâbî's thought, which is mostly based on Islamic theology. The main thesis of this paper is that Al-Fârâbî's did not isolate the elements of Greek philosophy and then transmitted them to the realm of Islamic spirituality. This paper tries to confi rm that Al-Fârâbî's political thought at its base is determined by Islamic theology, culture and political occasions. Al-Fârâbî furthermore sought to synthesize the political philosophy of Plato and Islamic political thought in his most important work The Ideas of the Citizens in the Virtuous City and is considered to be the founder of Islamic political philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will discuss key concepts of contemporary social anthropology. I will try to point out methodological and theoretical aspects of this science. One of the key questions will be role of social anthropology in its contemporary relations towards general anthropology and general sociology. We will point out the fact that key concepts of contemporary social anthropology can be understood only considering her interdisciplinary background. We will try to elaborate what scientfic researches can be called "anthropological research". In that context we will try to give review of historical genesis of this science, and from which manifests all differences in aproach of its key questions (from evolutionism and functionalism to interpretative and simbolical anthropology). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I try to determine the hermeneutics of political holism, as one of the possible theoretical assumptions for understanding the status and meaning of the contemporary society and social ontology. I try to point out the understanding of the political which functions as a pillar of the contemporary society, and as such opens room for rethinking of its role as a social function. Hermeneutics of political holism explains the political as a pure form, which needs to function as a line of dispositives that will be able to overcome the rigid antinomies of classical sociology and lead towards the path of the new social ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]