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Lyrics of Life: Sa'di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self

Fatemeh Keshavarz

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780748696925

Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2018

DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696925.001.0001

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Sa‘di on Care of the Self: Ethical Games of Power in Practice of Freedom

Sa‘di on Care of the Self: Ethical Games of Power in Practice of Freedom

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(p.79) 3 Sa‘di on Care of the Self: Ethical Games of Power in Practice of Freedom
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Lyrics of Life
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Fatemeh Keshavarz

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Edinburgh University Press
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696925.003.0003

This chapter looks at Sa’di as an ethicist whose perspective on ethics shows an understanding of the pragmatic and this worldly conditions necessary for educating oneself. In this regard, the chapter compares Sa’di’s ethical perspective to Michel Foucault’s “care of the self.”

Keywords:   Sa’di, ethics, Care of the Self, Sa’di and Foucault, Ethics and Humour

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