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Moral agents and their deserts : the character of Mu'tazilite ethics / Sophia Vasalou.
| Author/creator | Vasalou, Sophia |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | xiii, 252 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007036849 |
| ISBN | 9780691131450 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691131457 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BP195 .M6 V37 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |