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An Assessment of the Possibility for Proposing Non-Obligatory Judgments in Ethics
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Seyed Mohammadbaqer Mirsane   |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical Ethics, Research Center of Ethics and Islamic Psychology, Qur’an and Hadith Research Institute, Qom, Iran |
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Abstract: (694 Views) |
One may claim that a clear distinction between jurisprudence and Islamic ethics is that there are non-obligatory rulings in jurisprudence and there are no such rulings in ethics. The main question of this article is to examine the truth of this claim: “Are there no non-obligatory rulings in ethics?” This article seeks to analyze and compare the non-obligatory rulings in jurisprudence and value judgments in ethics adopting the method of conceptual analysis. As a result, value judgments in ethics have the three properties of description, evaluation and practical demandingness, just like non-obligatory rulings in jurisprudence; in fact, value rulings may fall under non-obligatory rulings. Accordingly, ethics not only includes non-obligatory rulings, but constitutes notable achievements in value judgments which are useful for explaining jurisprudential non-obligatory rulings. Also, Muslim ethicists have neglected certain non-obligatory judgments, and it would be highly beneficial for improving moral discussions if these non-obligatory judgments were reconsidered and developed |
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| Keywords: Islamic ethics, jurisprudence, non-obligatory rulings, value judgments. |
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Type of Study: theoretic |
Subject:
Normative ethics
Received: 2023/06/28 | Accepted: 2023/07/1 | Published: 2023/07/1
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