Al-Farabi's Specters in the Ideal City

Rereading the text of the book "The Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City" by us in light of the previous readings of it by scholars and researchers lies in highlighting the problem that distinguished Al-Farabi's philosophy in it. This is because most scholars of Al-Farabi's philosophy, according to the book "Opinions," have explored the book and directed attention only to the metaphysical aspect, through research into his emanationist philosophy, explaining God's relationship to the world and how beings emanate from the First, and what are its attributes, and defining the division of being into the necessary being, which is God, whose attribute is necessary existence and has no cause, and the possible, which is the whole of the world, and also stopping at the reference to the political and social aspect in the book through research into man and society and the necessity of human society and a presentation of the characteristics of the leader of the virtuous city and the advantages of this city and the morals of its people, with reference to the antagonists of the virtuous city, which are the fallen or non-virtuous cities, while pointing out the extent of Al-Farabi's influence by other philosophers who preceded him in this field, especially from the Greeks.