The Relevance of Mysticism and Moral Relativism

In the following pages, by descriptive- analytic method, we seek the consequences of mysticism, in the level of mystic thoughts and its master way, in the ethical thought. One of the main challenges in this case, can be said as the question of “relative reading” of ethics by referring to the mystic heritage. By the wake of this challenge, we will focus on the moral relativism in the two subjects: a) moral epistemology, in the field of meta ethics. b) moral normativity, in the field of normative ethics. In summary, it seems that by a first and fast over view, the inner method of mysticism (as an epistemological approach), and the tolerance of its masters (as a normative approach) can be accept as solid evidence of relativity of mysticism, in general, and relativism of its moral thoughts, in particular. But in contrast, if we return to the bases, methods and sources of mystic epistemology, and also if we attend to the final level of the divine passage of mystic man, it seems more acceptable for us, to read mystic ethics as a school which has objective knowledge in its epistemic level, and virtual pattern in its normative dimension.