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Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics (repost)

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Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics (repost)

Sophia Vasalou, "Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2008-07-01 | 269 Pages | ISBN: 0691131457 | PDF | 1.5 MB

Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moralidentity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and ninth-century Mu'tazilite theologians and their sophisticated successors attempted to answer, giving rise to a distinctive ethical position and one of the most prominent and controversial intellectual trends in medieval Islam. The Mu'tazilites developed a view ofethics whose distinguishing features were its austere moral objectivism and the crucial role it assigned to reason in the knowledge of moral truths. Central to this ethical vision was the notion of moral desert, and of the good and evil consequences–reward or punishment–deserved through a person's acts.