Explaining the gap between politics and ethics by examining advice in the story of the lion and the cow in Kalileh Dimna based on Machiavelli's theory
Subject Areas : شاهنامه
قدسیه رضوانیان
1
(دانشیار زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه مازندران)
عفت سادات غفوری
2
(دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه مازندران)
Keywords: Politics, Morality, Machiavelli, Kalileh and Demneh, advice and recommendation,
Abstract :
Kalileh Dimnahasreflected moral and educational trends of our literature. This book contains both moral teachings and political doctrines. In order to achieve this, it benefits from inspirational effect of stories which demonstrated through anecdotes. Since admonition discourse; in the traditional approach for education, especially moral education is dominant discourse, this study attempts to explore this aspect of didactic literature. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to answer this question, that is, Does the aim of advising from the language of story characters are morals in all cases or sometimes it is political? By examining advices in the story of cow and lion we understand that Demneh is trying to gain power. He believes in demoralizing in policy, as a result there are a lot of similarities between the ideas of Machiavelli and didactic content in this story.