Why Humans Refrain from Lying: A Critical Edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid

This article offers a critical edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid. In this text, al-Raṣṣāṣ establishes ten premisses to prove that humans will always say the truth if lying yields no greater benefit for them. We suggest that al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid was written in reaction to a section of Mānkdīm Shashdīw’s Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa: Mānkdīm considers this proposition self-evident, whereas al-Raṣṣāṣ insists on the necessity of proving it rationally.

Yazar: Hassan Ansari – Ehsan Mousavi Khalkhali – Jan Thiele
Yayın: Shii Studies Review
Cilt: 6
Sayı: 1-2
Sayfa: 423–446
Tarih: 2022
DOI: 10.1163/24682470-12340084
ISSN: 2468-2470
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/ssr/
19 Ocak 2023