اسم الکتاب : زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق المؤلف : مكارم شيرازى، ناصر الجزء : 1 صفحة : 23
But while confessing that most of moral virtues and vices areconcerned with
social life of man, we believe this could not be generalized. Because there are
a great number of moral cases which have only an individual aspect, and are
true for a single man too. For instance, patience or impatience for
afflictions, bravery or fear for events, endeavor or laziness in achievement to
one's objective, ignorance or attention to the creator of world, thanksgiving
or ingratitude for His endless favors and such affairs, which ethics scholars
have discussed them in ethical books and have called them moral virtues or
vices, could have an individual aspect, and are truthful for one living
completely isolated from the society.
Hereof division of morality into" individual morality" and"
social morality" is clarified. However, it is obvious that socialmorality
is more important in ethics, and man's personalityf ocuses on it, although
individual morality too has aconsiderable part in respect to oneself.
Big mistake
It should be mentioned herein that those who isolate fromthe society for
purification of morals and training their souls, secluding themselves and
supposing that they can achieve this great aim better in this way, are
completely wrong. Because they actually destroy the subject of social morality,
and although they avoid some vices in this way, but this is not really
considered as a virtue. It looks like the one who cuts his sexual apparatus for
avoiding adultery and lewdness. Although he is not tainted with unchastity, but
this will not be a virtue for him.
Moreover, experience has shown that isolation and seclusionfrom society
will cause a series of moral vices such as
اسم الکتاب : زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق المؤلف : مكارم شيرازى، ناصر الجزء : 1 صفحة : 23