Emotions of Self-Assessment in Al-Ghazali and Aquinas

This book offers a comparative study of two central yet often neglected moral emotions-shame and pride-in the ethical writings of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Thomas Aquinas. Moving beyond conventional accounts of medieval philosophy focused on metaphysics or law, it reveals how each thinker reinterprets Aristotelian virtue ethics through the lens of religious commitment. While Aristotle regarded prid...