Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mohammad Hassan Karimi ¹
• Khadijeh Ghorbani Sisakht ²

¹ Assistance Professor, University of Shiraz, Iran

² PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Education, University of Shiraz

Abstract

According to some theories about the nature of moral concepts, these concepts can be included into four categories: objective (external), philosophical, emotional (affective) and constructional (contractual). To solve some of the philosophical problems, Allameh Tabatabai suggests the new theory of constructional perceptions. Dividing the constructions, he considers ethics as a part of the constructional concepts. Some of the features he considers for moral conventions such as relativeness, originating from the feelings and needs, the lack of truth and falsifiability, etc., puts this theory in close similarity with the theory of moral emotionalism from Ayer, contemporary positivist philosopher. Aside from the commonalities of the two theories, there are fundamental differences between them that should not be ignored, including that by suggesting this view, Ayer seeks to reject the metaphysics, but by suggesting conventions theory (as a whole), Allameh seeks the consolidation of rationalization and philosophical principles.

Keywords

• ethics
• constructional
• emotionalism
• Allameh Tabatabai
• Ayer