Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources.
- Publications
- Influence
Educating Virtue as a Mastery of Language
- Sophia Vasalou
- Sociology
- 1 March 2012
That only those who have mastered language can be virtuous is something that may strike us as an obvious truism. It would seem to follow naturally from, indeed simply restate, a view that is far more… Expand
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
- Sophia Vasalou
- Political Science
- 1 July 2008
Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such… Expand
Appendix. Translation From Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, “The Promise And The Threat,” In Sharḥ Al-Uṣūlal-Khamsa
- Sophia Vasalou
- Political Science
- 31 January 2008
An Ancient Virtue and Its Heirs: The Reception of Greatness of Soul in the Arabic Tradition
- Sophia Vasalou
- Philosophy
- 1 December 2017
‘The Mind as an Object of God's Knowledge’: Another Cartesian Temptation?
- Sophia Vasalou
- Philosophy
- 2009
In this paper my aim is to consider the picture of God's immediate knowledge of the mind as this appears in Wittgenstein's work, where its soundness seems to be brought into question. My argument is… Expand
Greatness of Spirit in the Arabic Tradition
- Sophia Vasalou
- Art
- 30 October 2019
Much—if not quite enough—has been written about the development of greatness of soul and its cognate concepts in ancient philosophy and in the European context more broadly. The bestknown account of… Expand