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Author:   Anthony Robert Booth
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Pivot
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781137556998

ISBN 10:   1137556994
Pages:   100
Publication Date:   05 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1: Falsafa as Ethics of Belief.- 1.1: Knowledge in Islam.- 1.2: The Ethics of Belief in the West.- 1.3: The Ethics of Belief in Islam.- 1.3.1: Imān vs Islam.- 1.3.2: Islamic Evidentialism.- 1.3.3: Moderate Evidentialism.- 1.3.4: Islamic Anti-Evidentialism.- 1.3.5: Moderate Anti-Evidentialism.- 1.4: Concluding Remarks.- Chapter 2: Certainty & Prophecy.- 2.1: The Question of the Epistemic Elite.- 2.2: The Conditions of Certainty.- 2.3: The Active Intellect and the Prophetic Imagination.- 2.4: Moderate Evidentialism vs. Moderate Anti-Evidentialism.- 2.5: Concluding Remarks.- Chapter 3: Prophecy & Politics.- 3.1: Human perfection.- 3.2: The Utopian City State.- 3.3: The Imperfect Cities, Liberalism and Democracy.- 3.4: Conclusion: Towards a Neo-Pyhrronism?.- References.

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Anthony Robert Booth is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He also works for Trusting Banks, a NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) funded collaboration between the Universities of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK. He has worked mainly on issues at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, and has published articles appearing in such journals as Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Synthese. He also co-edited Intuitions (2014).

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