THE THEME OF SOCIETY IN AL-FARABI'S PHILOSOPHY

The Second Teacher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-951) attaches a special importance to the theme of society in his philosophy. It can be said that the Islamic philosopher Farabi is a theoretician of society as can be understood from his works. Namely; in al-Farabi's philosophy, human and the happiness of human comes at the beginning of everything. Human is a social being by its very nature. Therefore, the happiness of human is directly connected with society. In other words, that social life is obligatory for human is directly related to the happiness of human. Social life, that is, people's living together as a society, constitutes an integral part of human being and happiness. In this work, the researcher aims to treat, understand and make meaning the theme of society, the view to society, the approach to the meaning of society for human beings, society from a typological perspective, etc. in the philosophy of Islamic thinker Farabi with the outlines. In this context, when we look at the books of Farabi in an integrity, it is understood that Farabi tried to reveal a theory of society within the framework of key concepts such as human, happiness, medina (city, society, politics), civilization, community, society, ictima (coming together, meeting), ictima'at, ma'mura, need, helping one another, governance, presidency, tribe, ummah, religion, mille, etc.