Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics: How Jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) Mobilizes Practical Reform

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willis Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
Practical Strategy ◽  
Diagnostic Capacity ◽  
Normative Change ◽  
Guiding Principles

AbstractWhere some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for normative change, and reviews their diagnostic capacity for evaluating various uses of Islamic resources.

scholarly journals Etika Lingkungan Perspektif Hukum Islam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evra Willya ◽  
Sabil Mokodenseho ◽  
Muh. Idris ◽  
Nasruddin Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Diagnostic Capacity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religious Adaptation ◽  
Common Future ◽  
Philosophical Phenomenology

The Islamic governs the religious adaptation according to the principles and guidelines designed to conform with practical reasons to discover the wish of the divine continuously. The framework of Islamic law is clearly described in the rule of maqasid al-syariah in the form of legislation to accommodate the situation and conditions. Further study in the Quran and hadith discovered that Islam has specific principals and rules that demand environmental maintenance. This research aims to reveal the direction and regulations of environmental management comprehensively according to Islamic law using the philosophical, phenomenology, and normative approaches. Some important principles of environmental ethics in Islam are portrayed in the examples that appear to develop new Islamic thinking in environmental ethics. Due to the common future and possibilities as well as the threats with the same bad results, all self-correction process requires feedback from an Islamic perspective on environmental maintenance. Due to the global impact of the environmental crisis, cooperation from all parties is required to prevent the unnecessary pose of environmental hazards, and existing environmental hazards must be best avoided. This research shows how the Islamic principles on environmental ethics work as a mechanism to bring normative change and review the human diagnostic capacity to evaluate different use of natural resources, including the ethics of environmental maintenance.

The Christian scholar today and Bonhoeffer’s legacy of the transformative gospel

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar S. Santrac
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
Academic Responsibility ◽  
The Us ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Gospel Message ◽  
Christian Nationalism

This article seeks to draw some useful guiding principles for Christian scholars from Bonhoeffer’s work, applied primarily in the US context. These take note of: (1) the power and relevance of his contextual expression of the gospel message; (2) the intellectual and academic responsibility of his scholarship; (3) the distinctive elements of his ethics; and (4) his expression of the transformative symbiosis of the divine will and human agency. Based on these principles, recognised in Bonhoeffer’s historical and theological legacy, the article will explore the current legacy of Bonhoeffer’s work and contextualise it in the current battle for Christian values in society.Contribution: Within the current US political polarisation between forms of Christian nationalism and the anti-racist movement in the US, this article is a special contribution to the debate of Bonhoeffer’s theological or political momentum.

Scotus and Ockham

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Terence Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Moral Rightness ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
The Will ◽  
Divine Commands ◽  
The Right

Scotus and Ockham reject the Aristotelian outlook, as Aquinas presents it, and develop a voluntarist account of the will and of morality. In their view, determination by practical reason does not ensure free will; a free will must be wholly undetermined by reason. Nor can it be determined by the desire for one’s ultimate good; the impulse towards the right is separate from the impulse towards happiness. If we apply these principles to the freedom of the divine will, we find that God could not be free if the nature of right and wrong were independent of the divine will. We must infer that moral rightness and wrongness are ultimately constituted by divine commands.

scholarly journals Ecotheology Islam: Teologi Konstruktif Atasi Krisis Lingkungan

ULUMUNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-346
Author(s):  
Abdul Quddus
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ethical Management ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The One

The earth inhabited by human now is facing global environmental crisis. To respond to and tackle the crisis, a new awareness to explore the principles of religion has emerged today, which was then called ecotheology, an integral environmental insight based on ethical-theological as well as ethical-anthropological dimensions. This paper is aimed at, on the one hand, exposing principles of Islamic ecotheology that are able to be guiding principles in managing the nature, and on the other hand, comparing them with the principles of modern environmental ethics of the environmentalist/ eco-thinkers. The author argues that there are three principles of Islamic ecotheology that are relevant as the basis of ethical management of nature now days, namely the principle of tawḥid (unity of all creation), the principle of āmanah-khalīfah (trustworthiness-moral leadership), and ākhirah (responsibility).  

scholarly journals Consultation Urgency And Counseling As Islamic Legal Strategy In Legal Positivisation In Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shohibul Itmam
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Practical Strategy ◽  
Empirical Law ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
Special Pattern ◽  
Legal Strategy ◽  
Professional Consultation

<p>Islamic law in the context of fiqh positivization needs certain strategies. consultation and counseling can be a strategy in islamic law positivisation. various strategies and explanations provide a special pattern in islamic legal thinking in indonesia. this writing discusses consultation and counseling as an islamic legal strategy leading to legal positivity in indonesia. with an elaborative approach between normative law and empirical law  this writing concludes that islamic law is one part of the raw materials of national law that can be managed pluralistically with other laws that grow in indonesia. the plurality of indonesian law which is an empirical constitution can bring with islamic law through professional consultation and consequences. The practical strategy is uniting perceptions which are the substance of islamic teachings related to the meaning of sharia and fiqh in the values of universality of humanity such as the substance of justice, honesty, equality of balance and liking. with the strategy such islamic law can be a solution for national law at the secondary of islamic laws can move to color the development of national law into positive law.</p>

Target Centred Virtue Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Swanton
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Right Action ◽  
Doctrine Of The Mean ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Philippa Foot ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Continental Tradition

Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was groundbreaking but by now has been subject to considerable critical attention. The time is ripe for new developments and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed in this book (TVE) is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. First, it rejects the ‘natural goodness’ metaphysics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics owed to Philippa Foot in favour of a ‘hermeneutic ontology’ of ethics inspired by the Continental tradition and McDowell. Second, it rejects the well-known ‘qualified agent’ account of right action made famous by Hursthouse in favour of a target-centred framework for assessing rightness of acts. The target-centred view, introduced in Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View (VEP), is much more developed in TVE with discussions of Dancy’s particularism, default reasons and thick concepts, codifiability, and its relation to the Doctrine of the mean (suitably interpreted). TVE retains the pluralism of VEP but develops it further in relation to a pluralistic account of practical reason. Besides the pluralism TVE develops other substantive positions including the view that target centred virtue ethics is developmental, suitably embedded in an environmental ethics of “dwelling”; and incorporates a concept of differentiated virtue to allow for roles, narrativity, cultural and historical location, and stage of life.

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