Ma`rifat Siyasi

Unity and plurality are among the most important issues in the history of political philosophy so that the tendency of the political philosopher towards any of them can influence all aspects of his political philosophy. Throughout history political philosophers have presented different ideas for dealing with these two issues. The special status of political peripatetic philosophers, like Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Khawaja Nasir al-Din Tusi in the history of Islamic philosophy, has led us to explore this issue with the aim of finding the ways of achieving unity in political peripatetic philosophy. For this purpose, using a descriptive -analytical method and making interpretive analysis the article reviews the dimensions to unity in political peripatetic philosophy. Political peripatetic philosophers underscore the need for unity in political life based upon their principles in ontological, human and axiological spheres. Realizing the necessity of unity in civil life, political peripatetic philosophers decided to find ways of achieving it in the political community and then, the ground will be prepared for the realization of unity. Education, love, justice, and Divine edict are among the ways and means of achieving unity in a political community