Journal of Islamic Psychology

Journal of Islamic Psychology

Factors and practices of moral education from the viewpoint of Morteza Motahhari to apply in counseling: Content analysis

Authors
Zeinab Babaei 1
Samad Mollazenal 2
Mohammad-Tayyeb Sahraei 3
Masoumeh Esmaili 4
1 Master student in Family Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University
2 PhD student in Philosophy of Education, Allameh Tabataba’i University
3 Professor at Department of Islamic Education, Imam Sadiq University
4 Professor at Department of Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University
10.22034/psy.2022.13374
Abstract
Moral education in individual and social domains is of importance today because saving societies from such crises as family dysfunction, suicide, and mental disorders is due to ethics and to reach to a moral society we need to develop moral people as fundamental units of society. The human evolution with the goal of being to near God will not be gained without moral education. Since the existing approaches are one-dimensional and not appropriate to Islamic culture of Iran the current research using content analysis seeks to explain factors and practices of moral education from the viewpoint of Morteza Motahhari to apply in counseling. Research findings showed that the goal of moral education is developing human being whose inner gifts (intellectual, religious, ethical, aesthetic) are developed soundly. A balanced human’s wisdom overcomes his ignorance, his chastity overcomes his lust, and his bravery overcomes his fears. In order to gain this goal, individual (moral insight, sentiment, and behavior), background (marriage, work, and Jehad), and environmental (improving familial affective setting, being a role modeling, accepting others role modeling) factors are in effect and developing intellectual gifts, self-awareness, self-regard, and making habits could be used.
Keywords
moral education
Morteza Motahhari
Counseling
Content analysis
Journal of Islamic Psychology
Volume 7, Issue 15
June 2022
Pages 27-54