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A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics

The great Muslim poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal was perhaps full of admiration for the Victorian poet Robert Browning when, in Reconstructions of Religious Thoughts in Islam, he mentions that that the later “turns the impossibility [of absolute knowledge] to ethical use by a very ingenious argument...

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Main Author: Mohd Ramli, Aimillia
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
BH Aesthetics
BL Religion
PE English
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/1/Micollac_2012_Final_Schedule.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.255882012-08-27T06:04:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/ A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics Mohd Ramli, Aimillia BH Aesthetics BL Religion PE English The great Muslim poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal was perhaps full of admiration for the Victorian poet Robert Browning when, in Reconstructions of Religious Thoughts in Islam, he mentions that that the later “turns the impossibility [of absolute knowledge] to ethical use by a very ingenious argument. The uncertainty of human knowledge, teaches the poet, is a necessary condition of moral growth; since complete knowledge will destroy the liberty of human choice.” Yet stark contrasts exist between the two men’s conception of “human choice” or free-will. This is partly because the attention to man’s struggles with his own Self in order to know the world and his active reaction to it in Browning’s poem is often bereft of any guiding principle, leading his protagonists sometimes to experience moral depravity and, at other times, disillusionment. Iqbal’s concept of Free-will, however, sees it as a divine gift that is to be used with balance, amongst other things, in order to serve Allah (S.W.T.). This paper argues that this provides a solution to traditional opposition between aestheticism and ethics, since for a character to assert his free-will does not ultimately mean he is essentially “immoral” and the literary work lacks aesthetic value. 2012-07-10 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/1/Micollac_2012_Final_Schedule.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/5/A_Comparative_Study_between_Muhammad_Iqbal_and_Robert_Browning_MICOLLAC_2012.pdf Mohd Ramli, Aimillia (2012) A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics. In: The 7th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Organised by, 10-11 July 2012, Putrajaya-Pullman Hotel. (Unpublished)
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topic BH Aesthetics
BL Religion
PE English
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BL Religion
PE English
Mohd Ramli, Aimillia
A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
description The great Muslim poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal was perhaps full of admiration for the Victorian poet Robert Browning when, in Reconstructions of Religious Thoughts in Islam, he mentions that that the later “turns the impossibility [of absolute knowledge] to ethical use by a very ingenious argument. The uncertainty of human knowledge, teaches the poet, is a necessary condition of moral growth; since complete knowledge will destroy the liberty of human choice.” Yet stark contrasts exist between the two men’s conception of “human choice” or free-will. This is partly because the attention to man’s struggles with his own Self in order to know the world and his active reaction to it in Browning’s poem is often bereft of any guiding principle, leading his protagonists sometimes to experience moral depravity and, at other times, disillusionment. Iqbal’s concept of Free-will, however, sees it as a divine gift that is to be used with balance, amongst other things, in order to serve Allah (S.W.T.). This paper argues that this provides a solution to traditional opposition between aestheticism and ethics, since for a character to assert his free-will does not ultimately mean he is essentially “immoral” and the literary work lacks aesthetic value.
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title A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
title_short A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
title_full A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
title_fullStr A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
title_full_unstemmed A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
title_sort comparative study between muhammad iqbal’s and robert browning’s concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/1/Micollac_2012_Final_Schedule.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/5/A_Comparative_Study_between_Muhammad_Iqbal_and_Robert_Browning_MICOLLAC_2012.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/25588/
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