Reason and tradition in Islamic ethics / George F. Hourani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hourani, George Fadlo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic ethics.

Physical Description:

xv, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Summary:

This volume collects the published essays of the late Professor Hourani on Islamic ethics in the earlier classical and formative periods of Islamic civilisation. 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 organised 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.

Contents:

Islamic theology and Muslim philosophy

Ethics in classical Islam: a conspectus

Ethical presuppositions of the Qurʼān

'Injuring oneself' in the Qurʼān, in the light of Aristotle

Two theories of value in early Islam

Islamic and non-Islamic origin of Muʻtazilite ethical rationalism

The rationalist ethics of ʻAbd al-Jabbār

Deliberation in Aristotle and ʻAbd al-Jabbār

Ashʻarī

Juwaynī's criticisms of Muʻtazilite ethics

Ghazālī on the ethics of action

Reason and revelation in Ibn Hazm's ethical thought

The basis of authority of consensus in Sunnite Islam

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

Averroes on good and evil

Combinations of reason and tradition in Islamic ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Local Notes:

Acc.#204186

ISBN:

0521267129

9780521267120

0521035635

9780521035637

OCLC:

11676533

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