Comparison of the moral teachings in Ferdawsi ̓s Shahname and the Mahabharata

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PH. Student of Tehran University

2 Associate Prof, University of Tehran

Abstract

Although Ferdawsi ̓s Shahname and Indian Mahabharata at first sight are known as epic poems, unexpectedly are unique full treasures of moral teachings and ouhghts and non-oughts and reflex the realities, circumstances and culture of their times as a light and briliant mirror.Their mooted ethical (moral) facts and matters include vast spectrum that not only contain the common and universal morals, which apply to all human individuals in every time, place and circumstances, but embrace morals of different classes and trades of the society. This research is intended to study ethical (moral) facts and matters of these works and to examine them with current viewpoints of the philosopty of ethics and so, to give an appropriate answer about the concept of ethics (morals) in these great and prominent poems and to find out that the propounded ethics (morals) in them is more similiar than to what kind of ethics (morals).

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