Abstract

Al-Farabi laid the foundations of the philosophy of mutual understanding, following the principle of tolerance towards other cultures, religions and spiritual practices. He carried out a constructive dialogue between the philosophy of antiquity and the philosophy of the Middle Ages, Islam, Christianity and Judaism and organically entered into the modern discourse of the Kazakh philosophy of mutual understanding.
In his teaching on mutual understanding, Al-Farabi revealed the unlimited possibilities of an integral communicative dialogue between completely different spiritual and intellectual worlds. The principle of mutual understanding as a way of mastering the semantic philosophical space of the ancient heritage allowed him to reveal the dialogic essence of philosophy and understand it as a dialogue of free, equal spiritual and intellectual practices. Through the prism of Al-Farabi’s philosophical heritage, the great meaning of the philosophy of mutual understanding is clarified.