جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « knowledge of ethics » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

Faith is a process that begins with backgrounds and underlying contexts, and at some point it leads to the determination of faith and after that, it intensifies. Since the explanation of the process of faith in the Quran is one of the essentials of the Quranic scholars and theologians, this article has attempted to study the faith builders’ contexts and their role. For this purpose, the verses of the Quran were carefully studied and everything that was mentioned in the Qur'an as a preparation to the faith was gathered. These preparations fall into the four domains of ethical, epistemic, religious, and behavioral. According to the findings of the study, faith in addition to knowledge requires ethical and behavioral contexts and not every character has the ground for accepting faith. Each stage of faith also plays a key role in furthering the next level of faith and is essential to attaining the desired faith.

In Mulla Sadra's philosophical system, human being enjoys a specific stance. He is the only contingent being with existential degrees corresponding and conforming to existential degrees and worlds. Mulla Sadra's environmental philosophy can be regarded as based on the principles and rules founding the system, including fundamentality and gradation of existence, particularly the principles of substantial motion and union of the knower and the known, as well as the stages of creation of soul and its relation with body. Such a philosophy can help us to provide ways to explain the relationship between man and nature, according to which environmental crises occurred to the nature can be managed. In the philosophical system of transcendent theosophy, nature is the manifestation and disclosure of a being continually influencing it in its creation and duration, endowed with knowledge, apprehension and consciousness according to its share in the being, and represents the hidden interior and exterior aspects of reality of existence. Therefore, man's interaction with nature as a living thing is totally different from that which is defined in environmental philosophy based on West's philosophy, which believes in an existential unity between man and nature. The present paper seeks to explain and analyze the meaning of man and nature in Mulla Sadra's philosophy and elaborate on their interrelation.

There are different perspectives regarding the following questions: does ethics depend on religion in practice? In other words, other than being aware of ethics, do we need any extra motivation to practice ethics? Is this motivation, religious motivation or it is should not necessarily be religious motivation and other motivations are enough as well? The perspectives regarding these subjects may be mainly divided into two groups: accordant and opponent views. The 'opponent' view, which belongs to Kant and his followers, believes not only religion does not help human to have ethical deeds, rather it harms it as well; on the other hand the 'accordant' view believes it is only religion which can compensate the existing gap between knowledge and practice. They believe not only believing in God reinforces and increases human's commitment to ethical values, rather it creates new values as well. This perspective has some defenders among Western ethical philosophers and Islamic ethical philosophers.