Fundamentals of Moral Training in the Anthropological Theory of Martyr Motahhari

This research is intended to identify the fundamentals of moral training in the anthropological theory of Martyr Motahari. This is an analytical-inferential research. For the collection of the data necessary to achieve the objectives of the research, the existing related resources were reviewed and the notes were taken. Then, the data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The results indicated that moral training is based on faith and religious thought, being regarded as an arena for nourishment of the human soul, characteristics, virtue and traits, as well as reinforcement of the wills of the inner promotion of the trainees. The inherent dignity of man, according to principles of moral training in Martyr Motahhari’s anthropology, is due to attribution of human soul to God, the potential nature of human values ​​as innate talent, the innateness of human inclination towards morality, the religious root for human moral preferences, the controversy between material and spiritual inclinations of man, the inward nature of human conflicts, the innateness of self-awareness, priority of self-awareness over self-knowledge, moral self-construction through will, the necessity of spiritual freedom for reaching to moral perfection in individual and social dimensions, trainability of man, acquisitional characteristics of  perfection, and dependence of the development of perfection on balanced growth of human values.