THEORY OF MORAL JUDGEMENT

 

Quranic Foundations And Structure Of Muslim Society

BOOK 2

ETHICO-METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS

 

 

PART 1

THE CRITIQUE AND DYNAMICS OF MORALS

 

PART 2

THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS

 

FUNDAMENTAL CLASSIFICATION

 

 Laws stated in the Qur’anic Moral Code, the presentation of which has been undertaken in the second volume of the present book, are actually ethical judgments. But there are certain principles which form the theoretical core of all moral philosophy, because they deal with the nature of Morality. We may call them ‘basic ethical principles’, and state them under the following fundamental classification:

1.        Theory of Moral Judgment.

2.     Then, if the standard of moral judgment is Law, discussion relating to the Moral Law with regard to:

a.     its nature

b.    the spirit according to which it is to be practised;—and also:

3.         Ends to which the moral law is directed:

a.     The Immediate End or Ends to which the Moral Law is directed.

b.    The Ultimate End, if any, which morality—although it is to be practised within its domain as an absolute value— should serve.

4.         Penal Ethics, or, Theory of Punishment.

5.         Moral, or, in the Qur’anic perspective, Ethico-Religious, Dynamics.

 

PART 1

THE CRITIQUE AND DYNAMICS OF MORALS

 

Chapter 1.

THEORY OF MORAL JUDGEMENT

 

The Moral Judgment is the judgment, from the point of view of morality, of approval or condemnation of a mode of conduct. It relates to the following factors:

1.    The Object of Moral Judgment, i.e., that which is approved or disapproved as good or bad. It can be conceived either as the motive of a performed voluntary action or as the consequence thereof.

2.    The Subject of Moral Judgment, i.e., that which sits in judgment over the modes of conduct of the moral  agent.

3.    The Predicate of Moral Judgment, i.e., the term of  moral approval or condemnation.

4.    The Standard involved in the Moral Judgment, with reference to which the value of a mode of conduct is assessed. It can be conceived either as Law or as End.

Source

to be continued . . . . . 

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