The corruption of soul

Human soul is always in neutral condition. It is can turns from good and also can be bad person. Allah says; By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right; Truly he succeeds that purifies it, And he fails that corrupts it![1]
This statements clearly states about our soul can achieve high moral standard but at the same time can be corrupted. Doing the good deeds can obtain rewards, and also punishment for those who are failed to do so.[2]
The good human behavior is obtained from the strong individual self-awareness. There are some steps and strategies to get strong self-awareness to reach it level by level. The final stage is punishment. It is a long process until human can discovery his true aims in their life. By doing this, the rational soul inside of each human will overcome the animal soul. If the energy of rational soul is week, then the soul becomes destruction, power than mind and action.

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[1] The Quran, 91:7~10
[2] For more details, see The Quran, 3:148

The differences between akhlak (Islam) and moral (Western)

Sources of akhlak are purely from Revelation and also hadith. It is clearly states in so many chapters in Al-Quran from the beginning process of human interrelationship until hereafter. The prophet Muhammad (PBUH) also says; I was sent to perfect good character. It guides all over aspects of human life, our relationship between us and The Almighty, human and human and also human to others creatures. The unique is the values in akhlak are never being changed in time, place and situation. For example, Al-Quran commands us not to commit adultery and it prohibited because it may cause harmful to religion itself, mind, oneself, progeny and property. This is fixed, and no one can change the rules in whatsoever circumstances you are.
But, according to individual moral self-interest, the act of adultery can be change to recommend behaviors to other societies in the Western country. For example, some of the countries in the Western humiliate for those who did not commit adultery. Why? It is because you must commit adultery if you want to become apart of the society. You will assume by the society as a bad person if you refuse and the society will boycott you.

Moral education pedagogy in school

What is the best technique in teaching moral? Value is abstract, complex, having difference meaning of each person perspectives and sometimes blur. Some philosophers argue the teaching of values should be directly or indirectly. This will make the meaningful learning. Kohlberg theory emphasizes on cognitive thinking while Kant with his ethical theory emphasizes on attitude, or effective consequences on action before and after action. Teaching values is not like we teaching Maths, Science, Bio, Health Education etc. You can assess student achievement after teaching-learning process. But, how to ensure that values is internalize? If you student gets A in moral subject, how far the values integrated inside themselves, social and worldwide?
Well, I have referred many books, and one of the pedagogy in teaching value is story telling. The sound is so interesting. It covered both domain cognitive and domain affective student. As teachers, we should use appropriate strategies, approaches, techniques and methods. Do not forget the philosophy elements like metaphysic, axiology, logic and epistemology.

Ethic-branch of moral philosophy

The study of ethic field can divided into three major categories. Metaethics, normative ethic and applied ethic. When talking about moral theories, we can consider whatever it is teleology(Bentham), deontology (Kant) or virtue ethics (Aristotle). Generally, the outline of morality is like this: motive-act-consequences.
According to Barbara McKinnon in her book (2001), there is no standard acceptance principles behaviour between what is wrong and what is right. Al-Ghazali and Ibnu Miskawaih say, ethics is from spontaneous action, do the thing without thinking. Thus, the culcation of moral values can be obtained by practice, pactice and practice until it may becomes a habit.
Individual morality according to Immenual Kant, you must do the right thing to others as you make it to yourself and making harmful to you or other people is sinful. Consequences is emphasize. Which theories are the best? Ethic fields from Islamic perspective are more comprehensiveness, compatibility in whatsoever situation. Well, what do you think?

Welcome to the world of morality and ethics.

Assalamualaikum, peace be upon you and welcome to my blog. Thank you to The Almighty and Muhammad The Messenger, I able to restart writing about moral fields, my study in International Islamic University Malaysia (July 2006-Jun 2009) for obtaining the first degree Bechelor Education (Hons) Moral Education. The contents of this blog are focusing to moral education in schools, theories, application, issues in moral education and also contemporary moral issues. Some references will be added later and all the contents are based on my own viewpoints. If there are mistakes, please contact me and you are almost welcoming.

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