Al-Ghaz?l? and the Idea of Moral Beauty
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 24 September 2021
- ISBN 9781032052052
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages88 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 226 g
- Language English 248
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Short description:
Al-Ghaz?l? and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Ab? ??mid al-Ghaz?l? (d. 1111).
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Long description:
Al-Ghaz?l? and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Ab? ??mid al-Ghaz?l? (d. 1111).
A giant of Islamic intellectual history, al-Ghaz?l? is celebrated for his achievements in a wide range of disciplines. One of his greatest intellectual contributions lies in the sphere of ethics, where he presided over an ambitious attempt to integrate philosophical and scriptural ideas into a seamless ethical vision. The connection between ethics and aesthetics turns out to be a signature feature of this account. Virtue is one of the forms of beauty, and human beings are naturally disposed to respond to it with love. The universal human response to beauty in turn provides the central paradigm for thinking about the love commanded by God. While al-Ghaz?l??s account of divine love has received ample attention, his special way of drawing the good into relation with the beautiful has oddly escaped remark. In this book Sophia Vasalou addresses this gap by offering a philosophical and contextual study of this aspect of al-Ghaz?l??s ethics and of the conception of moral beauty that emerges from it.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic ethics, Islamic intellectual history, and the history of ethics.
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1. Introduction 2. The Place of Aesthetic Experience in al-Ghaz?l??s Ethics 3. The Good and/as the Beautiful in Context 4. Moral Beauty and the Paradigm of Disinterested Love 5. A Conflict in al-Ghaz?l??s Ethics? 6. Resolving the Conflict: An Interpretive Toolbox 7. Concluding Comment
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