The Issue of ''Possibility of Morality" and Mystical Monism

The issue of "the possibility of morality" in mystical monistic reading is one of the challenges facing thinkers in the field of ethics and mysticism. One of the important theories in this field is "the incompatibility of morality with mystical monism", meaning that this mystical view makes morality impossible and meaningless. In this paper, with a descriptive-analytical approach and based on a logical approach, meanwhile presenting a claim of the authors of this theory, their assumptions about ethics and the reasons for its incompatibility with mystical monism are discussed. These assumptions, which are in fact the required application conditions of morality, can be analyzed under ontological, anthropological, and axiological categories: ontologically, ethics requires pluralism and a commitment to authenticity and reality of the distinction between different things; from an anthropological point of view, ethics requires the assertion of independent individual identities, whereby the otherness between the "self" and the "other" is formed, which is essential for establishing a moral relation; in terms of axiological point of view, one of components of ethical thinking and language is the validity of distinct value and normative categories such as good and evil or good and bad or right and wrong. According to the authors of this theory, the denial of the reality of the distinctions between creatures, the denial of otherness between self and other, and the meaninglessness of good and evil are of the logical requirements of mystical monism, which contradict the above assumptions and thus destroy the application conditions of morality.