TY - BOOK AU - Vasalou,Sophia ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Moral agents and their deserts: the character of Mu'tazilite ethics AV - BP195.M6 V37 2008eb U1 - 297.5 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Motazilites KW - Islamic ethics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312487 ER -