02719nam a2200385Ia 4500 ocn438941858 OCoLC 20200709055226.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 090924s2008 nju sb 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781400824526 (electronic bk.) 1400824524 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)438941858 286750 (N$T) BP195.M6 V37 2008eb 297.5 22 N$TA Vasalou, Sophia. Moral agents and their deserts [electronic resource] : the character of Mu'tazilite ethics / Sophia Vasalou. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. xiii, 252 p. ; 25 cm. 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 ḥuqūq -- The Baṣran 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 Baṣran justification of dawām al-'iqāb -- Moral identity and the resources of Baṣran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asmā' wa'al-aḥkām -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Baṣran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa. Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Motazilites. Islamic ethics. Electronic books. local NetLibrary, Inc. Original 9780691131450 0691131457 (DLC) 2007036849 (OCoLC)170058303 Bibliographic record display http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=286750 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information cpp3165 02 N$T 49595 49595