Analysis of the virtue of wisdom in Shāhnāmeh based on Aristotle's theory of ethics of virtue
Subject Areas : شاهنامه
zinat jahani
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Ph.D. Student of Persian Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran
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Kimia Tajnia
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Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran (corresponding author)
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Ismail Eslami
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Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran
)
Keywords: wisdom, Ferdowsi, Shāhnāmeh, Aristotle, theory of virtue,
Abstract :
Epic literature plays an important role in the moral education of society and Hakim Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh as the greatest national epic of Iran and the world, has always played a role in cultivating moral virtues, especially among Iranians. One of these virtues is wisdom. The manifestations of wisdom as a virtue in Shāhnāmeh can be put under two headings, first, innate and instinctive wisdom, and second, acquired wisdom. To explain these two kinds of wisdom, Aristotle's theory of moral virtue or the threefold knowledge, emotion and will has been used as a philosophical and theoretical framework. For each of the three cases, example has been quoted from Shāhnāmeh. In this research, the author has used a descriptive-analytical method and library studies to analyze the virtue of wisdom in Shāhnāmeh based on Aristotle's theory of virtue. The results indicate that the concept of wisdom and rationality used in both realms have been expressed in Shāhnāmeh; In other words, Ferdowsi in his moral and educational teachings, by informing, motivating and manifesting wisdom and rationality in practice, has provided the ground for promoting and cultivating wisdom as a moral action. His work in this regard has a philosophical and educational basis.
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