Explanation of metaethics issues based on the verses of the Holy Quran

Document Type : Original Article

Author
ramazan alitabar
Associate Professor at “The logic of understanding religion Department” in Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (iict)‎. (r.alitabar@chmail.ir).
Abstract
Metaethics, as the rational foundation of ethics, is a sub-branch of philosophy and one of the genitive philosophies. This knowledge studies ethics with a perspective-rational view and with an external approach and discusses its conceptual and affirmative principles. Some of its most important issues are: semantics of moral concepts, epistemology of moral propositions, ontology of moral propositions and the like. Based on self-founded and secular rationality, the method in this science is completely philosophical and rational. But based on Islamic rationality, in addition to applying the logic of reason, it can also be presented to the verses of the Qur'an and analyze and explain the mentioned issues by referring to the revelation and its inference. This paper tries to examine and explain the metaethics issues by referring to divine verses, especially the moral rules of the Qur'an, using a combined (rational-narrative) method. The main finding of the article is that although the mentioned issues are not explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an, but considering the rationality of religion and the Qur'an on the one hand and the proposition of moral rules in it on the other hand, it is possible to understand the philosophical infrastructure of Islamic ethics inferred from the verses of the Holy Quran through inclusion and implied implication.

Keywords

  1. The Holy Quran

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Quranic Studies
Volume 4, Issue 14
Autumn 2024
Pages 77-96