Screen LibraryMoral agents and their deserts：the character of Mu'tazilite ethics
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 252 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691131450 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691131457 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B968 |
| CLC: |
B968 B82-055 |
| Call Number: | B968/V328 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. 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. |