| The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī Contributor(s): Shihadeh, Ayman (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004149910 ISBN-13: 9789004149915 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $201.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Using hitherto unstudied sources, this monograph provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the ethical theory of al-R?z?, one of the most complex and influential medieval philosophers and theologians. It reveals remarkable and previously unidentified aspects of ethical thought in Islam. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
| Dewey: 297.5 |
| Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.52" W x 9.68" (1.43 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using the most extensive collection hitherto of his published and unpublished writings, this volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and interdisciplinary study of the ethical philosophy of al-Rāzī (1149-1210), a most outstanding and influential medieval philosopher-theologian. A complex picture emerges, across his philosophical, theological, ethical and juristic works, of a consistent and multi-layered ethical theory. Al-Rāzī departs from classical Ash'arī divine command ethics to develop both a consequentialist ethics of action, which seriously rivals Mu'tazili deontological ethics, and a perfectionist ethics of character. Within the latter framework, he sets out his later, teleological theory of prophecy. The volume includes the text, published for the first time, of one of al-Rāzī's latest and most fascinating works, Censure of the Pleasures of This World, which expresses pronounced moral and epistemological pessimism. |