Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics

Name: Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics
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ISBN: 9780521035637

ISBN-10: 0521035635

ISBN-13: 9780521035637

Edition: 2007

Authors: George F. Hourani

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This volume collects the published essays of the late Professor Hourani on Islamic ethics in the earlier classical and formative periods of Islamic civilization. Ethics was from the start at the core of Islam, and the construction of philosophical theories to support normative ethics made those centuries among the most profound and intensely active in the history of ethical thought. The book opens with two general and contextual pieces and thereafter it is organized by schools of thought in a broadly chronological order. The essays centre around two related debates in Islamic philosophy: over the ontological status of value, and over the sources of our knowledge of value. The answers…

Book details

List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.968



Preface


Foreword



Conventions


Titles and locations of the original articles


Introduction



Islamic theology and Muslim philosophy



Ethics in classical Islam: a conspectus



Ethical presuppositions of the Qur'an



'Injuring oneself' in the Qur'an, in the light of Aristotle



Two theories of value in early Islam



Islamic and non-Islamic origin of Mu'tazilite ethical rationalism



The rationalist ethics of




Deliberation in




Ash'ari



Juwayni's criticisms of Mu'tazilite ethics



Ghazali on the ethics of action



Reason and revaltion in Ibn Hazm's ethicical thought



The basis of authority of concensus in Sunnite Islam



Ibn Sina's 'Essay on the secret of destiny'



Averroes on good and evil



Combinations of reason and tradtion in Islamic ethics


Select Bibliography


Index