Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil

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Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond
Copyright
Epigraph
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Defining a New Problem of Evil
	Summary of the Chapter
	1. Two Stories
	2. Morally Controversial Scriptural Passages
	3. Seeming Prescribed Evil
	4. The New Problem of Evil and the Structure of the Book
	5. Historical Background
Part I: Scripture First
	1. The Consequentialism of the Late Ashʿarites
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. Divine Command Theory of the Early Ashʿarites
		2. The Consequentialism of al-​Ghazālī
		3. The Moral Epistemology of al-​Ghazālī
		4. The Argument for Strict Adherence to Scripture
		5. Taqlīd and the Rule of Figurative Interpretation
	2. The Deontological Ethics of the Muʿtazilites
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. The Ashʿarites and the Problem of Evil
		2. The Metaethics of the Muʿtazilites
		3. The Normative Theory of ʿAbd al-​Jabbār
		4. The Moral Epistemology of ʿAbd al-​Jabbār
		5. Natural Evil, Prescribed Evil, and Skeptical Theism
	3. The Virtue Ethics of Islamic Philosophers
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. The Project of the Reconciliation of Reason and Religion
		2. Al-​Fārābī’s View on Epistemology and Religion
		3. Averroës’s View on the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
		4. The Virtue Ethics of al-​Fārābī
Part II: Ethics First
	4. The Impermissibility of Moral Deference
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. Moral Deference in Contemporary Philosophy
		2. Al-​Rāzī’s Ethical Theory
		3. Al-​Rāzī on Moral Deference
		4. Moses and Impermissibility of Pure Moral Deference
		5. A Solution to the Problem of Prescribed Evil
	5. The Reliability of Our Moral Judgments
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. The Debate on Objective and Subjective Ought
		2. Scripture, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
		3. Ignorance Revisited
		4. Kantian Arguments for the Accessibility Constraint
		5. Moral Knowledge Optimism and the Muʿtazilites
		6. The Case of Abraham
	6. The Hermeneutics of Scripture
		Summary of the Chapter
		1. Ethics-​First Solutions to the Problem of Prescribed Evil
		2. Lessons from a Philosophical Tale
		3. The Nature of Law
		4. Legal Interpretation Defended
		5. The Moral Functions of Scripture
Index