Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty

ISBN-13: 9781032052052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 82 str.

Sophia Vasalou

Opis

Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111).

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The Place of Aesthetic Experience in al-Ghazālī’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-Ghazālī’s Ethics?; 6. Resolving the Conflict: An Interpretive Toolbox; 7. Concluding Comment

O autorze

Sophia Vasalou is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on philosophical and theological ethics in the Islamic world. Her published works include Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Muʿtazilite Ethics (2008), Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (2013), and Wonder: A Grammar (2015).