The Quran and Moral Upbringing
نویسندگان
1 Assistant Professor at Institute of Islamic Sciences and Culture, Qom.
2 Corresponding author, Assistant professor, Department of Qur'ani Tafsir, Al-Mustafa International University, Khorasan.
doi
10.30470/er.2023.2005290.1227چکیده
The goodness and badness inherent in divine rationality is a common theoretical and theological topic originating in philosophical texts of Socrates. This trend follows two points: 1) There are fixed moral rules in this world and God orders people to follow them; 2) There are no moral rules and God's commands and prohibitions make things good or bad. From the first standpoint, the goodness and badness of an action lies in the action itself and there is no need for God's command. However, the second view is that God determines the goodness and badness of an action, meaning whatever he commands is good and whatever he forbids is bad. There is a close relationship between the acceptance of each of the two views with the presence of moral propositions in the Quran. By accepting the first viewpoint, the purpose of the moral propositions of the Quran is first and foremost moral education and motivation, but according to the second standpoint, the goal of the Quran is knowledge-giving in the first stage, whereas moral and motivational upbringings are in the second stage. In this paper, this topic is investigated, and the results indicate that although the Holy Quran has not directly mentioned the inherent goodness and badness, many verses refer to inherent goodness and badness, and the moral propositions of the Quran are primarily aimed at moral motivation, not moral knowledge giving.