02538nam a2200337 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095015001900112016001800131020004300149020004000192040002100232035002100253050002500274082001400299100002100313245011600334260005300450300001700503504006400520505125500584533015201839650001701991650002002008655002902028710001702057856012602074ebr10312487CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||070905s2008    nju     sb    001 0 eng    z  2007036849  aGBA8591932bnb7 z0145959362Uk  z9780691131450 (hardcover : alk. paper)  z0691131457 (hardcover : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)43299669614aBP195.M6bV37 2008eb04a297.52221 aVasalou, Sophia.10aMoral agents and their desertsh[electronic resource] :bthe character of Mu'tazilite ethics /cSophia Vasalou.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,cc2008.  axiii, 252 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.0 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 �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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aMotazilites. 0aIslamic ethics. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312487zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view