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Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu´tazilite Ethics
Sophia Vasalou
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691131450
SKU
V9780691131450
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About Sophia Vasalou
Sophia Vasalou is research fellow in philosophy at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu´tazilite Ethics
Winner of the 2009 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "This is an impressive and original contribution to the knowledge of Islam's intellectual history."
M. Swartz, Choice "Vasalou's [book] is a lively and often labyrinthine analysis of thinkers who have received little attention in Western intellectual circles... Readers ... who wish to engage the Islamic tradition of moral thought, ... Read more
M. Swartz, Choice "Vasalou's [book] is a lively and often labyrinthine analysis of thinkers who have received little attention in Western intellectual circles... Readers ... who wish to engage the Islamic tradition of moral thought, ... Read more