Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics
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Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics

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Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics

About this book

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 developed follow similar lines to the rational theology and philosophy of the West, and Professor Hourani brings out the frequent parallels. As a whole, the volume will introduce and establish the importance of the Islamic tradition of thought about ethics.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780521035637
eBook ISBN
9780511869594
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Logic in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Foreword
  9. Conventions
  10. Titles and locations of the original articles
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Islamic theology and Muslim philosophy
  13. 2. Ethics in classical Islam: a conspectus
  14. 3. Ethical presuppositions of the Qur'ān
  15. 4. 'Injuring oneself in the Qur'ān, in the light of Aristotle
  16. 5. Two theories of value in early Islam
  17. 6. Islamic and non-Islamic origin of Mu'tazilite ethical rationalism
  18. 7. The rationalist ethics of 'Abd al-Jabbār
  19. 8. Deliberation in Aristotle and 'Abd al-Jabbār
  20. 9. Ash'arī
  21. 10. Juwaynf s criticisms of Mu'tazilite ethics
  22. 11. Ghazali on the ethics of action
  23. 12. Reason and revelation in Ibn Hazm's ethical thought
  24. 13. The basis of authority of consensus in Sunnite Islam
  25. 14. Ibn Sina's 'Essay on the secret of destiny'
  26. 15. Averroes on good and evil
  27. 16. Combinations of reason and tradition in Islamic ethics
  28. Select bibliography
  29. Index