![]() ![]() In the nineteenth century a broadly influential branch of Romantic philosophy insisted that goodness and beauty were intimately related. REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS, by Susan Sontag. The Journal of Aesthetic Education University of Illinois Press Įssay Review Biting the Bullet: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence THE BULLET'S SONG: ROMANTIC VIOLENCE AND UTOPIA, by William Pfaff. In this small but dense book, Sontag assesses the hope that the reproduction of images, especially photographic images, of violence and atrocity might help to abolish war, or at least to play One such attempt to relate ethics and aesthetic-a bleak, somber, and deeply chastened attempt-is presented in the late Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others. This does not mean, however, that connections between ethical and aesthetic projects are no longer made. The goals of ethical and aesthetic education were taken to be one and the same-the cultivation of the kalokagathos or "noble-and-beautiful" individual.1 This robust view of the relation between ethical and aesthetic education is now rarely defended it was dealt a mortal wound by the inconvenient fact that highly cultured or Gebildete individuals have been implicated in the twentieth century's worst political crimes. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Science and Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Islamic Studies, and Religious Studies more generally.Biting the Bullet: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence Biting the Bullet: The Ethics and Aesthetics of ViolenceĮssay Review Biting the Bullet: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence THE BULLET'S SONG: ROMANTIC VIOLENCE AND UTOPIA, by William Pfaff. This book offers a detailed examination that seeks to offer clarity if not agreement in the midst of an intense intellectual conflict and polarity amongst Muslims. It is shown that his framework can be used to reach an alignment between Islam and Neo-Darwinian evolution. By understanding al-Ghazālī as an Ashʿarite theologian, a particular strand of Sunnī theology, his metaphysical and hermeneutic ideas are taken to explore if and how much Neo-Darwinian evolution can be accepted. ![]() This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058–1111), a widely known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the medieval period. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. Keywords Islamic ethics – maqāṣid al-sharīʿa – Muʿtazila, Ashāʿira – divine command theory – natural law – Qurʾan and ethics. The theory of maqāṣid is here clearly presumed to be a normative one rather than simply descriptive. ![]() The arguments are based on the work of some classical and contemporary scholars who have noted the contradiction in the traditional maqāṣid theory, and on the views of those scholars whose ethical views and principles expressed an understanding of morality that contradicts with ethical voluntarism or 'divine command theory' in ethics. The last and the longest section of the article develops arguments that would admit human reason in formulating the maqāṣid and suggests that this requires a different ethical foundation, one that is closer to the Muʿtazilite conception of morality. The article examines the meta-ethical presup-positions of the Qurʾan, arguing that Qurʾanic ethics allows for rethinking the meta-ethical foundation of the maqāṣid, since it accepts objective moral values and allows for moral epistemology that is based on reason. It starts by introducing the Ashʿarite meta-ethics, and in two subsections briefly elucidates the perceived relation between meta-ethics and normative ethics and the relation between ethics, Islamic jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) and speculative theology (ʿilm al-kalām). The aim of this article is to critique the meta-ethical foundation of the purposes of law theory (maqāṣid al-sharīʿa). ![]()
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