Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm

Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm

Morals are just, fair and good rules of human relations and human behaviours. Good conscience also comprises certain principles for imparting justice and fairness among the people. God conscience and morality are, thus, close to each other. Universality in good conscience will certainly help in deve...

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Main Author: Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
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Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan 2011
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BJ Ethics
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spelling iium-161782012-02-11T17:13:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/16178/ Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm Ansari, Abdul Haseeb BJ Ethics Morals are just, fair and good rules of human relations and human behaviours. Good conscience also comprises certain principles for imparting justice and fairness among the people. God conscience and morality are, thus, close to each other. Universality in good conscience will certainly help in developing universal moral rules. But the problem is: what is immoral today may be moral tomorrow; likewise, what is moral at one place may be immoral at another place. Because of this, universality in morality is not achievable. However, in Islamic morality, universality is a possibility because most of the moral rules are derived from the Qur’an and Sunnah; and man-made moral rules or rules developed as customs have to be in conformity with them. As every society has its religious and cultural identity in terms of rules governing human relations and human behaviours, it is, thus, not possible to impose cultural rules of one society on the members of other societies. However, there are a number of intercultural impacts on the people. American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/16178/1/ansari_universality.pdf Ansari, Abdul Haseeb (2011) Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm. Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 7 (13). pp. 2334-2341. ISSN 1819-544X http://aensionline.com/jasr/jasr/2011/2334-2341.pdf
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Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
description Morals are just, fair and good rules of human relations and human behaviours. Good conscience also comprises certain principles for imparting justice and fairness among the people. God conscience and morality are, thus, close to each other. Universality in good conscience will certainly help in developing universal moral rules. But the problem is: what is immoral today may be moral tomorrow; likewise, what is moral at one place may be immoral at another place. Because of this, universality in morality is not achievable. However, in Islamic morality, universality is a possibility because most of the moral rules are derived from the Qur’an and Sunnah; and man-made moral rules or rules developed as customs have to be in conformity with them. As every society has its religious and cultural identity in terms of rules governing human relations and human behaviours, it is, thus, not possible to impose cultural rules of one society on the members of other societies. However, there are a number of intercultural impacts on the people.
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author Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
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author_sort Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
title Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
title_short Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
title_full Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
title_fullStr Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
title_full_unstemmed Universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to Islamic paradigm
title_sort universality of good conscience and morality: an expository study with special reference to islamic paradigm
publisher American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/16178/
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