Moral agents and their deserts: the character of Muʿtazilite ethics
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1. Verfasser: Vasalou, Sophia (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2008]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index
The framework : the Mu'tazilites -- Reading Mu'tazilite ethics -- Ethics as theology -- Approaches to the study of Mu'tazilite ethics -- Theology as law -- Moral values between rational knowledge and revealed law -- Rights, claims, and desert : the moral economy of ḥuqūq -- The Baṣran Mu'tazilite approach to desert -- "To deserve" : groundwork -- Justifying reward and punishment : the values of deserved treatments -- Justifying punishment : the paradoxical relations of desert and goodness -- The causal efficacy of moral values : between sabab and 'illa -- The right to blame, the fact of blame : views of the person ab extra -- Moral continuity and the justification of punishment -- Time and deserving -- An eternity of punishment : the Baṣran justification of dawām al-'iqāb -- Moral identity and the resources of Baṣran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asmā' wa'al-aḥkām -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Baṣran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa
Beschreibung:XIII, 252 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9780691131450

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