The Ethical Dignity of Human Soul(The Reflections of Al-Ghazali and Aquinas on theRole of Belief in: Human Soul in the Solution ofEthical Issues)

Muhammad ai-ghazali andthomas aquinas have respectively played aconsiderable role in islam and christianity. religious attitude can be seenin their works; and the body-soul distinction is thus one ofthe issues thatsuggest the two scholars' religious attitudes. ethicalissues are among manyothers seriously proposedfor examination in the works ofai-ghazali andaquinas. this paper aims to examine how their philosophy ofethics isitifluenced by their beliefin the body-soul distinction andto whatextenttheformer issue is developed by the latter, highlighting the fact that aighazalihasa more significant role thanaquinas