abu hamed mohammad ghazzali is a great muslem intellectual and faqih in the fifth century(ah). an outstanding feature of his political thought is the intertwining of ethics and politics. he views politics from the perspective of religion and ethics. thus, politics, in his view, is not the science of power and of how to attain power, but the means for moral improvement and guiding human beings t...

The principal sources for Aristotle's account of the family are Politics I and II and Nicomachean Ethics VIII. In Politics I, the oikos (family, household) is defined as that specific form of koinwnia (community, association) which integrates individuals into a common life that enables them to become, as members of an oikos, members of a polis (political community, city-state) as well. In Nicom...

This paper examines the 'concrete analogies' underpinning the ontological commitments of dominant conceptions of ethics, politics and economics to show that the content of economics is implicated in conceptions of ethics, and that these conceptions cannot be separated from questions of research and professional ethics.