Studying Ethical Concepts, Sources and Criteria in New Avesta
Subject Areas : Ethics and Islamic Education
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Keywords: Ethics, Zoroastrian, New Avesta, Ethical concepts, Ethical Sources, Ethical Criteria. ,
Abstract :
The "New Avesta" which includes the largest volume of the "Avesta", contains heterogeneous books in terms of language and content that were apparently written during the social stability of the Zoroastrian society. This article tries to examine the ethical concepts (the semantics of virtue and vice), epistemological sources (virtues and vices de facto) and ethical criteria (Virtue or Deontological or Teleological Ethics) in New Avesta in a coherent manner. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic and library-based for collecting information. at the end, Virtue in "New Avesta" is defined as the correct function of social class by each person, and the definition of Vice is vice versa. The dominant ethical criterion is Virtue Ethics based on Consequentialism. The ethical virtues and vices are generally religious.