Moral Lessons, Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, Presidency of Religious Affairs Publications, 2020, 405 pages, (ISBN:978-975-19-6566-0)

Abstract

The work named "Moral Lessons" is about various evaluations about moral philosophy. Since human beings have reason and understanding, they evaluate and make sense of themselves and their environment through certain value judgments. Thanks to these evaluations, people make a judgment as "good" or "bad". In the book, the author tried to explain what these evaluations and criteria should be and the basis of morality in the light of Islamic morality. He stated that the principles that some philosophical schools express as the source of morality cannot constitute the basis of morality, and that the principles put forward by some schools are insufficient. The author also analyzed issues such as reason, conscience, right-law, duty, will-option, responsibility and sanction, which are the basic issues of moral philosophy, and tried to determine their position within moral philosophy. While doing these, he tried to demonstrate that the non-religious principles placed on the foundations of morality were not neglected by the Islamic religion and did not conflict with reason. He even tried to prove that these principles have become stronger with a number of principles supported and established by religion in terms of placing morality in society.