Al-Ghazl and the Idea of Moral Beauty

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

Autorentext

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 Mütazilite Ethics (2008), Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (2013), and Wonder: A Grammar (2015).

Klappentext

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).

Inhalt

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