Analyzing the content of Faiz Al-Kashani's opinions and ideas and inferring their implications for ethical training

Abstract

As one of the major problems of our time is the crisis of moral education and lack of ethics, today moral education as one of the areas of education has received serious attention from educational scholars. The purpose of this article is to examine Fayz Kashani's ethical views and their implications for moral education. Accordingly, a qualitative analytic-descriptive method based on library studies was employed in this study. To this end, first, Fayz Kashani's works, in particular, the two important educational works of Mohsen Fayz Kashani, namely, “Mohjat-al-Beyza fi Tahzib al-Ahya” and “Al-Haqa'iq Fi Mahasin Al-akhlaq”, and also books and articles on moral education were reviewed. Fayz Kashani's moral system is based on self-knowledge and moderation of physical powers. The results of the study indicated that human ethical training empowers them to overcome their self-centeredness in epistemological, communicative, and emotional contexts. That is to say, people do not make judgments based on their mood, knowledge, information, interests, and behavior, but seek their happiness in the happiness of others, and this contributes to the development of moral happiness