Willful ignorance in law and morality

Shari'ah (Islamic law) has been the dominant moral and legal code ofMuslim societies for the gnxter part of their history. During the early centuriesof Islam, Shari'ah hcilitated the social growth and develojment of the Muslims,growth that culminaa in the establishment of a vast emph and an outstandmgcivilization. By the close of the fifth century of Islam, however, Shari'ahbegan to lose its role as the guiding force that inspired Muslim creativityand ingenuity and that nurtured the growing spirit of the Muslim community(Ummah). Consequently, the Ummah entered a period of stagnation thatgradually gave way to intellectual decline and social decadence. Regrettably,this painful trend continues to be more or less 'part of the individualconsciousness and collective experience of Muslims.This paper attempts to trace the development of the principles of Islamicjurisprudence, and to assess the impact of Shari'ah on society. It argues thatthe law ceased to grow by the sixth century of Islam as a result of thedevelopment of classical legal theory; more specifically, law was put on hold,as it were, after the doctrine of the infallibility of ijma' (juristic consensus)was articulated. The rigid principles of classical theory, it is contended, havebeen primarily induced by the hulty epistemology employed.by sixth-centuryjurists.Shari'ah, or Islamic law, is a comprehensive system encompassing thewhole field of human experience. It is not simply a legal system, but rathera composite system of law and morality. That is, Islamic law aspires to regulateall aspects of human activities, not only those that may entail legalconsequences. Hence, all actions and relationships are evaluated in accordancewith a scale of five moral standards.According to Shari'ah, an act may be classified as obligatory (wajib),recommended (mandub), permissible (mubah), reprehensible (makruh), orprohibited (haram). These five categories reflect the varying levels of moral ...

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The Diremption of Love: Gillian Rose on Agency, Mortality, and Hegelian Feminism

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/hypa.12471 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 309-328

Author(s):

Asaf Angermann

Keyword(s):

Feminist Philosophy ◽

American Philosophy ◽

Jewish Thought ◽

Law And Morality ◽

Anglo American ◽

And Gender ◽

Gillian Rose ◽

Power And Powerlessness ◽

Philosophical Writings ◽

British Philosopher

Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was an influential though idiosyncratic British philosopher whose work helped introduce the Frankfurt School's critical theory and renew interest in Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Jewish thought in Anglo‐American philosophy. After years of relative oblivion, her life and thought have recently received new attention in philosophy, sociology, and theology. However, her work's critical Hegelian contribution to feminist philosophy still remains unexplored. This article seeks to reassess the place and the meaning of feminism and gender identity in Rose's work by addressing both her philosophical writings and her personal memoir, written in the months preceding her untimely death. It argues that although Rose's overall work was not developed in a feminist context, her philosophy, and in particular her ethical‐political notion of diremption, is valuable for developing a critical feminist philosophy that overcomes the binaries of law and morality, inclusion and exclusion, power and powerlessness—and focuses on the meaning of love as negotiating, rather than mediating, these oppositions.

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Part I The foundations in law and morality

Journal of Social and Biological Systems ◽

10.1016/s0140-1750(82)92056-5 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 313-314

Author(s):

M GRUTER ◽

P BOHANNAN

Keyword(s):

Law And Morality

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Law and morality in evolutionary competition: Law: 1, morality: 0

Think ◽

10.1017/s1477175600001937 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 5 (14) ◽

pp. 93-102

Author(s):

Colin P.A. Jones

Keyword(s):

Competition Law ◽

Law And Morality ◽

The Law

Is the law displacing morality? And should it?‘Law is a bottomless pit and I have no inclination to fathom its depths.’

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Christian Salvation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives

Theological Studies ◽

10.1177/004056390506600401 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 739-769

Author(s):

Richard Clifford ◽

Khaled Anatolios

Keyword(s):

Divine Presence ◽

Willful Ignorance

[To provide order to the welter of metaphors employed in Christian soteriology, the authors study them within their underlying systems or “models.” The “prophetic” model, in which salvation is effected within history through human instruments, appears in Isaiah and Luke as well as in Irenaeus. In the “liturgical” model, the divine presence is safeguarded by sacrifices; it is found in Leviticus, the Letter to the Hebrews, and also in Athanasius. In the “sapiential” model, sin is willful ignorance and salvation illumination; it is found in Proverbs and John, and echoed in Augustine's soteriology.]

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