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Moral Agents and Their Deserts
The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
Taschenbuch von Sophia Vasalou
Sprache: Englisch

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Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and ninth-century Mu'tazilite theologians and their sophisticated successors attempted to answer, giving rise to a distinctive ethical position and one of the most prominent and controversial intellectual trends in medieval Islam. The Mu'tazilites developed a view of ethics whose distinguishing features were its austere moral objectivism and the crucial role it assigned to reason in the knowledge of moral truths. Central to this ethical vision was the notion of moral desert, and of the good and evil consequences--reward or punishment--deserved through a person's acts.

Moral Agents and Their Deserts is the first book-length study of this central theme in Mu'tazilite ethics, and an attempt to grapple with the philosophical questions it raises. At the same time, it is a bid to question the ways in which modern readers, coming to medieval Islamic thought with a philosophical interest, seek to read and converse with Mu'tazilite theology. Moral Agents and Their Deserts tracks the challenges and rewards involved in the pursuit of the right conversation at the seams between modern and medieval concerns.
Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and ninth-century Mu'tazilite theologians and their sophisticated successors attempted to answer, giving rise to a distinctive ethical position and one of the most prominent and controversial intellectual trends in medieval Islam. The Mu'tazilites developed a view of ethics whose distinguishing features were its austere moral objectivism and the crucial role it assigned to reason in the knowledge of moral truths. Central to this ethical vision was the notion of moral desert, and of the good and evil consequences--reward or punishment--deserved through a person's acts.

Moral Agents and Their Deserts is the first book-length study of this central theme in Mu'tazilite ethics, and an attempt to grapple with the philosophical questions it raises. At the same time, it is a bid to question the ways in which modern readers, coming to medieval Islamic thought with a philosophical interest, seek to read and converse with Mu'tazilite theology. Moral Agents and Their Deserts tracks the challenges and rewards involved in the pursuit of the right conversation at the seams between modern and medieval concerns.
Über den Autor
Sophia Vasalou is Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Moral Agents and Their Deserts (2008).
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Religion: Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
ISBN-13: 9780691171432
ISBN-10: 0691171432
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vasalou, Sophia
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Sophia Vasalou
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
preigu-id: 104145497
Über den Autor
Sophia Vasalou is Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Moral Agents and Their Deserts (2008).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Religion: Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
ISBN-13: 9780691171432
ISBN-10: 0691171432
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vasalou, Sophia
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Sophia Vasalou
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
preigu-id: 104145497
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