Rongo Univesity Library

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 �huq�uq -- The Ba�sran 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 Ba�sran justification of daw�am al-'iq�ab -- Moral identity and the resources of Ba�sran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asm�a' wa'al-a�hk�am -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Ba�sran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from M�ankd�im Sh�ashd�iw, "The promise and the threat," in Shar�h al-u�s�ul al-khamsa.

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