The Ethical Functions of Death-Consciousness in Meaningful Life, From Allameh Jafari's Viewpoint

Abstract

Death-consciousness and life are among the dualities that have always been a concern for mankind, so that throughout history, solving the mystery of death and its relation to life is one of the greatest aspirations of man. Even today, with the prevalence of absurdity and the inattentiveness of contemporary human beings, the need to deal with death and its role in life has doubled. In view of the importance of this, in this descriptive-analytical method, this article attempts to investigate the death and its moral function on the meaningful life of human being from the point of view of Allameh Jafari, as a thinker for whom the meaningful life was concerned. For Allameh, the interpretation of reasonable life depends on the correct interpretation of death. Death Consciousness, which is the interpretation of "Anna Allah and the Almighty," with sublimation, moral control, the enhancement of the quality of worldly life, and the moral compactness of works such as: shortsightedness, biodiversity, and pragmatism combined with worldly piety, expansion, and peace. Death, in this world, and the pursuit of transcendent life and life in the world, leads to a meaningful and reasonable life.

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  • Receive Date: 26 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 15 August 2019
  • Accept Date: 26 August 2019

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