عنوان

Al-Ghazālī on the Origins of Ethics

شماره

LA122841

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Al-Ghazālī on the Origins of Ethics

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Taneli Kukkonen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In his famous autobiography, The Deliverer from Error, al-Ghazālī reconstructs the way the science of ethics is supposed to have developed. Al-Ghazālī contends that the philosophical ethics taught by the Arabic Aristotelians necessarily depends upon prior revelations handed to religious aspirants of a vaguely Sufi stamp. Al-Ghazālī's argument is reminiscent of similar ones made in late antiquity; I maintain, however, that for al-Ghazālī the point bears added systematic significance. Given the central position held by the purification of the soul in al-Ghazālī's conception of true religion, he can hardly admit that the philosophers should have discovered independently any of the philosophical ethics al-Ghazālī himself espouses. It is the supernatural power of prescribed ritual acts that ultimately allows al-Ghazālī to maintain the superiority of religiously predicated ethics. In his famous autobiography, The Deliverer from Error, al-Ghazālī reconstructs the way the science of ethics is supposed to have developed. Al-Ghazālī contends that the philosophical ethics taught by the Arabic Aristotelians necessarily depends upon prior revelations handed to religious aspirants of a vaguely Sufi stamp. Al-Ghazālī's argument is reminiscent of similar ones made in late antiquity; I maintain, however, that for al-Ghazālī the point bears added systematic significance. Given the central position held by the purification of the soul in al-Ghazālī's conception of true religion, he can hardly admit that the philosophers should have discovered independently any of the philosophical ethics al-Ghazālī himself espouses. It is the supernatural power of prescribed ritual acts that ultimately allows al-Ghazālī to maintain the superiority of religiously predicated ethics.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

271-298

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

63/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

al-Ghazālī

اصطلاح موضوعی

history of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

Islamic ethics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Islamic Neoplatonism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Platonic ethics

اصطلاح موضوعی

prophetology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sufism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Taneli Kukkonen

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341423

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y