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.