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29 produkter
Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics
E-bok, 2015
440 kr
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Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his time-the Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the …
Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics
Häftad, 2018
638 kr
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Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his time-the Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the …
Measure of Greatness
Philosophers on Magnanimity
E-bok, 2019
1229 kr
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Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence , it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle''s account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most …
Measure of Greatness
Philosophers on Magnanimity
E-bok, 2019
1229 kr
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Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence , it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle''s account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most …
Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition
E-bok, 2019
1027 kr
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There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of ''greatness of soul''. A larger-than-life virtue embodying nothing less than a vision of human greatness, it has often been seen as a relic of the Homeric world and its honour-loving heroes. In philosophy, it …
Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition
E-bok, 2019
1027 kr
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There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of ''greatness of soul''. A larger-than-life virtue embodying nothing less than a vision of human greatness, it has often been seen as a relic of the Homeric world and its honour-loving heroes. In philosophy, it …
The Measure of Greatness
Philosophers on Magnanimity
Inbunden, 2019
1376 kr
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Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive …
Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition
Inbunden, 2019
1518 kr
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There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of 'greatness of soul'. A larger-than-life virtue embodying nothing less than a vision of human greatness, it has often been seen as a relic of the Homeric world and its honour-loving heroes. In philosophy, it found …
Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Inbunden, 2025
1162 kr
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The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical reflection on the topic and how one …
Al-Ghazali and the Ideal of Godlikeness
E-bok, 2025
1045 kr
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The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical reflection on the topic and how one …
Al-Ghazali and the Ideal of Godlikeness
E-bok, 2025
1045 kr
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The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical reflection on the topic and how one …
Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics
Inbunden, 2015
2120 kr
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Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his timeâthe Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the …
Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics
E-bok, 2015
440 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Icon of modern-day fundamentalist movements, firebrand religious purist, tireless polemicist against the intellectual schools of his time-the Ibn Taymiyya we know is a thinker we often associate with hard attitudes and dogmatic stances. Yet there is another Ibn Taymiyya that stands out from the …
Practices of Wonder
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Häftad, 2013
355 kr
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A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the concept of wonder and its significance in religion, philosophy, the arts and the sciences.Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical …
Moral Agents and Their Deserts
The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
Inbunden, 2008
651 kr
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Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and …
Moral Agents and Their Deserts
The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
Häftad, 2016
325 kr
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Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and …
Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty
E-bok, 2021
369 kr
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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 …
Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty
E-bok, 2021
369 kr
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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 …
Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty
Inbunden, 2021
994 kr
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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 …
Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty
Häftad, 2024
326 kr
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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 …
Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint
Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime
Inbunden, 2013
1529 kr
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With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a …
Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint
Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime
Häftad, 2016
557 kr
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With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a …
Moral Agents and Their Deserts
The Character of Mu''tazilite Ethics
E-bok, 2008
419 kr
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Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? These were some of the vital religious and philosophical questions that eighth- and …
Practices of Wonder
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
E-bok, 2012
537 kr
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Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of …
Wonder
A Grammar
Häftad, 2016
401 kr
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Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.Wonder has been celebrated as the quintessential passion of childhood. From the earliest stages of our intellectual history, it has been acclaimed as the driving force of inquiry and the prime …
Wonder
A Grammar
Inbunden, 2015
1087 kr
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Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.Wonder has been celebrated as the quintessential passion of childhood. From the earliest stages of our intellectual history, it has been acclaimed as the driving force of inquiry and the prime …
Old Woman and the River
Av Ismail Fahd Ismail, Sophia Vasalou
Häftad, 2019
215 kr
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After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century becomes visible, with vast wastelands being left behind. In southeastern Iraq, along the shores of the Shatt al-Arab River, the groves of date palm trees have withered. No …
