LEADER 04536nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910455224303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15850-3 010 $a9786612158506 010 $a1-4008-2452-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824526 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788525 035 $a(EBL)457934 035 $a(OCoLC)432996696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000205401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217669 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191896 035 $a(PQKB)10719816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36391 035 $a(DE-B1597)446542 035 $a(OCoLC)979725352 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824526 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457934 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312487 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215850 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788525 100 $a20070905d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoral agents and their deserts$b[electronic resource] $ethe character of Mu'tazilite ethics /$fSophia Vasalou 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17143-2 311 $a0-691-13145-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. 327 $aThe 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 h?uqu?q -- The Bas?ran 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 Bas?ran justification of dawa?m al-'iqa?b -- Moral identity and the resources of Bas?ran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asma?' wa'al-ah?ka?m -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Bas?ran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Ma?nkdi?m Sha?shdi?w, "The promise and the threat," in Sharh? al-us?u?l al-khamsa. 330 $aMust good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and ninth-century Mu'tazilite theologians and their sophisticated successors attempted to answer, giving rise to a distinctive ethical position and one of the most prominent and controversial intellectual trends in medieval Islam. The Mu'tazilites developed a view of ethics whose distinguishing features were its austere moral objectivism and the crucial role it assigned to reason in the knowledge of moral truths. Central to this ethical vision was the notion of moral desert, and of the good and evil consequences--reward or punishment--deserved through a person's acts. Moral Agents and Their Deserts is the first book-length study of this central theme in Mu'tazilite ethics, and an attempt to grapple with the philosophical questions it raises. At the same time, it is a bid to question the ways in which modern readers, coming to medieval Islamic thought with a philosophical interest, seek to read and converse with Mu'tazilite theology. Moral Agents and Their Deserts tracks the challenges and rewards involved in the pursuit of the right conversation at the seams between modern and medieval concerns. 606 $aMotazilites 606 $aIslamic ethics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotazilites. 615 0$aIslamic ethics. 676 $a297.5 700 $aVasalou$b Sophia$01006619 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455224303321 996 $aMoral agents and their deserts$92316839 997 $aUNINA