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Religion: Religion is a system of beliefs and practices that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values. Many religions have organized communities of believers and some have sacred texts or scriptures. Some religions have no formal organization or sacred texts. See also Religious belief, Theology, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Word of God, God, Bible, Bible criticism.
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al-Farabi on Religion - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 127
Religion/al-Farabi/Höffe: The religions (...) have the task of bringing the same truth [of philosophy] to ordinary people, the non-philosophers, in parables and symbols. For them, each political community (umma) has its own tradition, which results in a remarkable tolerance: Because of the diversity of their cultural context, each community expresses its beliefs in different parables and symbols, and therefore different religions.
According to this, there can be excellent nations and excellent cities, which, despite different religions, claim the same happiness and pursue exactly the same goals(1).
>Community
, >Society, >Culture, >Cultural tradition, cf. >Multiculturalism, >Symbols, >Analogies, >Comparisons, >Comparability.

1. al-Farabi, On the perfect state, chap.17, § 2.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
al-Farabi
Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016


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