Ibn Sina's view about The role of material factors in the formation of moral traits

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Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Theology and Ahl-al-Bayt (Prophet's Descendants) Studies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Moral traits in worldly life are formed gradually and under the influence of various factors. By searching in Ibn Sina's works, all these factors can be divided into two groups, material and spiritual. Material factors include two sub-groups of physical and non-physical factors, which this research is designed to investigate. Among these factors, the body is central, because according to Ibn Sina's opinion: 1. Moral qualities, although they are physical qualities, but their origin is the body. 2. Actions are performed with the body's organs and powers. 3. The temperament that governs the body's organs and organs, forms ‌ It is human temperament 4. Non-physical factors manifest their effect by making the body passive.The anthropological foundations of Sinoy, including the influence of the single soul on the material body, the trainability of man, the possibility of change in individual ethics, etc., are the basis of the discussion of the article. Paying attention to the principles of creating creation and following the way of formation, change and stabilization of ethics by everyone is of special importance and is widely used in practice.

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