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