Moral agents and their deserts the character of Mu'tazilite ethics /

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Main Author: Vasalou, Sophia
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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245 1 0 |a Moral agents and their deserts  |h [electronic resource] :  |b the character of Mu'tazilite ethics /  |c Sophia Vasalou. 
260 |a Princeton :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a xiii, 252 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Islamic ethics. 
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