HERITAGE OF AL-FARABI: TRANSLATIONS AND RESEARCH

ON THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ABU NASR AL-FARABI

Vol. 84 No. 4 (2023), HERITAGE OF AL-FARABI: TRANSLATIONS AND RESEARCH
Vol. 84 No. 4 (2023)
2023-11-09

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Baizhuma, S., Kurmanaliyeva, A., & Tadjikova, K. (2023). ON THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ABU NASR AL-FARABI. Al-Farabi, 84(4), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.48010/2023.4/1999-5911.01

Abstract

Al-Farabi's views on the issue of language largely coincide with Aristotle's. But unlike Aristotle, who limited the study of language to the framework of poetics and rhetoric, and did not accept language as an independent object of study at all, Farabi singles out language as a subject of scientific research, distinguishes it as a subject of scientific research, and includes it in the classification list of subjects that are considered as the main branch of science, which is an in-depth study requires. In the philosophical question of language, the main question is the question of the origin of language. This question has not always escaped the attention of scholars of the Arabic-speaking world, this issue has interested Arab linguists, Muslim theologians, and, of course, philosophers. The philosophy of language and philosophical language problems in the teaching of Abu Nasir al-Farabi: to analyze the history of the development of the main problems of the philosophy of language in order to study the relationship between language and consciousness, the continuity of logic and grammar, and the peculiarities of the formation of philosophical terms, to show their importance for the development of the scientific paradigm of social and humanitarian education, Determining the philosophical (ontological, methodological, epistemological, axiological) foundations of Farabi's teaching about language, formulating the philosophical problems of language in connection with logic, studying his opinions on terms and terminology, conceptual-categorical apparatus with explanations, etc. the critical tasks of providing a philosophical basis for the actual problems and methodological principles of research. The philosophy of language is not only a branch of philosophy that studies the relationship between thinking and language, but also allows to determine the communicative role of language, different forms of speech and speech in discourse, the role of consciousness and knowledge in cognition. Although al-Farabi's sociological, political, and partially logical views have been studied until now, the study of the relationship between words and thinking, grammar and logic, making a systematic philosophical analysis of his linguistic researches, will be an important indicator of the article.

Kew words: teachings of al-Farabi, Philosophy of language and the language of philosophy, Language and thinking, Arab-Muslim philosophy,  Philosophical terminology, Logical-grammatical relationship.