Mendeley TY _ JOUR ID - 13990330237855 TI - Historical look at the phrase “Political by nature” in the Middle Ages of the Islamic world JO - History of Philasophy JA - ES LA - fa SN - 2008-9589 AU - Hejri Sajjad AU - AD - هیچ AD - Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 1 IS - SP - 41 EP - 64 KW - Political by nature Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn Miskawayh Rāzi Fakhr al-Din Rāzi Naṣīr al-Din Ṭūsi The way of Philosophers DO - N2 - Being political for/Politicalness of human beings is one of the topics which philosophers have been discussing from ancient times until now, and it is the basis/foundation of some branches of practical philosophy, especially the philosophical principles of social sciences. Although the necessity of "social life" or Being political/Politicalness for all human beings is more or less obvious; it was Greeks who scrutinized this phenomenon in their philosophical works, and what we know as being political by nature (of/about human beings) from the past to the present in the Islamic world has its roots in Greece and the age of translation. This phrase was created/emerged/coined by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn’s translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the third lunar century in the Islamic world, and the ground for its development was laid by Miskawayh’s Ethics. Although most contemporary translators of Aristotle's ethics into Persian and Arabic did not use this phrase, it's still prominent. The doctrine of Being political for/Politicalness of human beings became the basis/foundation of the demonstration of philosophers like Avicenna/ Ibn Sina to prove prophecy, and Fakhr al-Din Rāzi introduced it, which later became known as the way of philosophers, into theological works. By inquiring/studying/looking into available Persian and Arabic written heritage, this article tries to follow the development/pathway of the phrase “Political by nature”, which has turned into a term and model/form in the Islamic world, in middle ages and is still used today and in some aspects/somehow fill the gap of historical inquire about it in current literature. UR - rimag.ir/en/Article/23526 L1 - rimag.ir/en/Article/Download/23526 ER -