Politics of Islamic Ethics - Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition

"This is the first monograph in English devoted to the central Qur'anic idea of the fitra: that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. Uncovering the medieval Islamic philosophical tradition's engagement with fitra, the author explores important and wider contested questions in contemporary ethics"--

Sommario

Introduction; 1. Aristotelian logic and Platonic politics: fi¿ra as the seat of human dispositions and source of the first intelligibles and its implications for the division of the city in al-F¿r¿b¿; 2. The (mystical) individual and community: sociality, solitude, and the life of the exceptional philosopher in Ibn B¿jja and Ibn ¿ufayl; 3. Revealed law and egalitarianism: shifting emphases in the conception and use of Fi¿ra in Ibn Rushd's thought; Conclusion.

Info autore

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School where she teaches classes on Islamic ethics, comparative religious ethics, Islamic thought, and ethical theory. She currently serves as President of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics (SSME). The Politics of Islamic Ethics is her first book.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande, Raissa A. (University of Von Doetinchem De Rande
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009566186
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956618-6
• Pagine: 348
• Serie: New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; Islam, History of Ideas, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Social History, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy