Ibn Miskawayh, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness (eBook)

The Truly Happy Sage

John Peter Radez (Autor)

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2019
162 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1569-5 (ISBN)

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Ibn Miskawayh, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the moral philosophy and context of Ibn Miskawayh (9321030), an advocate of the intellectually cultivated life with a strong religious bent. Though not necessarily a major innovator, he sought through his writings to provide a moral compass for turbulent times, much like thinkers such as Petrarch (13041374), Pico della Mirandola (14631494), Francois Rabelais (14941553), Montesquieu (16891755) or more recently, Mortimer Adler (19022001). Despite the tumultuous times in which they lived, these thinkers offered the world hope through a humanism that cultivated both civic and moral character. Whether directly expressed in his moral philosophy or illustrated in the examples of renowned or notorious historical figures, Miskawayh's core idea is that one's character is much easier kept than recovered. In this book, John Peter Radez shows how Miskawayh stands out not only as one of Islam's first ethicists, but also one of its true intellectuals: thinker, historian, codifier of the science of adab, and a truly happy sage who represented the best of his generation's intellectual and cultural elite. Miskawayh's message of how to create lives worthy of human beingshis civic humanismresonates today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: Al-Fauz al-Asghar • Aristotelianism • Baghdad • Belles Lettres • Buwayhid • Civic Humanism • eleventh-century philosophy • ethics • history of islam • History of Philosophy • Intellectual history • Islam • Islamic humanism • Islamic metaphysics • Islamic philosophy • Islamic Renaissance • Islamic scholasticism • Medieval History • Medieval Philosophy • Medieval Studies • medieval thought • Middle East studies • Near Eastern Studies • Persia • Philosophy of History • Philosophy of Religion • Religious Studies • Renaissance humanism • Tahdhib al-Aklaq • Tajarib al-Umam • tenth-century philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-1569-1 / 1793615691
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-1569-5 / 9781793615695