Is There a Difference Between the Philosophy of Plato and Alforabi?

There's an undercurrent here of Nietzsche. Strauss sees Farabi as diagnosing in a way Plato's blurring of the problem by taking a more rhetorical approach. This chapter is more or less a commentary on a very short work of Alforabi's called the philosophy of Plato. It includes a discussion of all of the dialogues, although it doesn't actually it emits a few to get right back up to the correct number of platonic dialogues.