Moral agents and their deserts : the character of Mu'tazilite ethics / / Sophia Vasalou.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Vasalou, Sophia.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 252 p.

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 huquq -- The Basran 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 Basran justification of dawam al-'iqab -- Moral identity and the resources of Basran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asma' wa'al-ahkam -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Basran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Mankdim Shashdiw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharh al-usul al-khamsa.