Semantics Methodology for Ethical Subjects and its Application to the Concept of Modesty

The semantics of ethical subjects is an important stage in textual religious studies. The present paper is a study on the semantics of ethical subjects and its application to the concept of modesty. The methodology is a descriptive-analytic one and of the kinds of library researches. Semantics has four stages: (1) the etymology, which means gathering, examining and analyzing the views of etymologist and specialists; (2) the religious semantics which means the examination of religious texts and deriving the important qualities of the words from them; (3) finding the definition, which means characterizing the important specifications of the definition and their relationships; and (4) analysis and explanation of the definition by examining the different ontological, humanistic and subject-related sides of the word. According to these principles, modesty is a combination of threatened veneration, perceived supervision and self-controlling. The result is that semantics does not restricted to etymology and methodic move in the semantics of religious subjects requires propagation and instruction of its method to researchers of the religious studies.