Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• hosein zare
• saeid kazemi

Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran

Abstract

Ethics is formed from several theoretical foundations, whose role is essential in formulating ethical guidelines. The present research aims to shed light on the foundations of the theology of ethics by examining the theological thoughts of Sheikh Tusi, who is considered one of the great scholars of the Imamiyyah, the head of the theological field of Baghdad and has had a great impact on the schools after him. In this regard, the researcher has processed and analyzed the data and propositions by using the method of rational-narrative research and using written documents, library, and scientific software. Therefore, the theological propositions of Sheikh Tusi (may Allah have mercy on him) were analyzed in the theological axes with an ethical approach, and its foundations were extracted. The role of motivation and the effects of belief in divine attributes, adherence to ethics and executive guarantee for ethics, extracting the virtue of commitment to duty as the normative theory of Sheikh Tusi in moral obligation, the purpose of knowledge in ethics derived from divine knowledge, and the centrality of monotheism in the ethical system are among the most important The findings of the research.

Keywords

• Sheikh Tusi
• ethics
• theological foundations
• theology