The Muslim community of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent has endured a number of severe shocks—beginning with the failure of the Indian Revolt of 1857, through the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, until the present. [...] The rhetoric used thus attempts to invoke not the agreement of the immediate 6 Muslim Ethics past, but of the far distant and original past that is thought to be the basic source of the community's life. [...] Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate the Master of the Day of Doom. [...] George Hourani, in a discussion of the early debates that arose between Muslim theologians on the issue of the role of reason in determining values, has characterized the two points of view that dominated the discussions as rationalistic objectivism and theistic subjectivism.22 Those in the first group, known as the Mu'tazila, asserted the efficacy of natural reason as a source of ethical knowledg [...] It appears to me as chronologically the second major occurrence in history of a profound discussion on the meaning and general content of ethical concepts, the first being that of the ancient Greek sophists and Plato.24 Hourani uses the term theistic subjectivism to characterise the stance of al-Ashari: "It is subjectivism because the value of action is defined by relation to certain attitudes or
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- 297/.5
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