Quran - What is Good, What is Evil
Man is a moral being, free to choose either good or evil,
right or wrong. The basic questions are: what is good?
what is evil? why good is good? why evil is evil?, These
questions are the topic of ETHICS where Laws according to
which OUGHT to happen are discussed. In this way ETHICS
relates more to feelings than to the concrete world and
incorporates instinctive behavior; within the purview of
Mechanistic Theory of Life. The scale of values helps to
determine which of the two goods is the higher and which
the lower. Reason tells only about relative values. Ethics
cannot even give a definite answer to the question as to
whether there are absolute values and if so, how they can
be known. It tends to define values in subjective terms,
only in relation to the particular experiencing
individual. It amounts to a tacit denial of an objective
system of values, valid for all men at all times. Islam
involves belief in objective, absolute values as moral
standard. These values are given in the Holy Quran – the
only source of our knowledge of the highest values on
which the character development is based.
right or wrong. The basic questions are: what is good?
what is evil? why good is good? why evil is evil?, These
questions are the topic of ETHICS where Laws according to
which OUGHT to happen are discussed. In this way ETHICS
relates more to feelings than to the concrete world and
incorporates instinctive behavior; within the purview of
Mechanistic Theory of Life. The scale of values helps to
determine which of the two goods is the higher and which
the lower. Reason tells only about relative values. Ethics
cannot even give a definite answer to the question as to
whether there are absolute values and if so, how they can
be known. It tends to define values in subjective terms,
only in relation to the particular experiencing
individual. It amounts to a tacit denial of an objective
system of values, valid for all men at all times. Islam
involves belief in objective, absolute values as moral
standard. These values are given in the Holy Quran – the
only source of our knowledge of the highest values on
which the character development is based.
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