Moral Agents and Their Deserts
Subtitle: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: June 19, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691131450
Subjects: Ethics; Islam - Theology; Islamic Studies; Philosophy; Religion; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "Moral Agents and Their Deserts is the first book-length study of this central theme in Mu'tazilite ethics, and an attempt to grapple with the philosophical questions it raises. At the same time, it is a bid to question the ways in which modern readers, coming to medieval Islamic thought with a philosophical interest, seek to read and converse with Mu'tazilite theology. Moral Agents and Their Deserts tracks the challenges and rewards involved in the pursuit of the right conversation at the seams between modern and medieval concerns."--Jacket.