88 Pages
by
Routledge
88 Pages
by
Routledge
88 Pages
by
Routledge
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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).
A giant of Islamic intellectual history, al-Ghazālī is celebrated for his achievements in a wide range of disciplines. One of his greatest intellectual contributions lies in the sphere of ethics,... Read more
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
Biography
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).
