Relationship between Happiness and Politics in Farabi's View

Because of expressing the highest position and the purpose of the fullest sense of human being, happiness is a philosophical issue that has always attracted the attention of philosophers. The main question of this paper is to explain Farabi’s perspective on happiness and influence of policy on it. The policy is the duty and strategy of the president of utopia and this definition is based on religious teachings that finally bring happiness to all the people of Medina. In Farabi’s view, elements such as reasoning, rational faculty and active intellect are establishing the foundation of the politics and therefore leads to prosperity. According to his view, utopia is shaped on the base of its head. Due to his knowledge and connection with the active intellect, he is responsible for the happiness of the people of medina is prosperity. Farabi speaks of a civil science that deals with the study of actions and Ethics to explain this point that spreading of the moral norms among people is possible for a government that do this action only due to force of serves and virtue. The result of this serves is politics and the purpose of the politics is discussing of practical human happiness. Therefore, politics determines the human happiness.