Kur’an’da bahsedilen pek çok ahlâkî kavram vardır. Bunlardan iffet kavramının bütün kavramlar içerisinde önemli bir yer teşkil ettiği görülmektedir. Dolayısıyla onun özel olarak ele alınması yararlı olacaktır. Bu çalışma, semantik incelenmesini hedeflemektedir. İffet kelimesi bu şekliyle almamakla birlikte türemiş olduğu aff/عفف kökü, dört âyette geçmektedir. Arapça’da kelimesi, temelde “az şey...

This article examines how the experience and critique of their country's decline led Spaniards to craft a distinct discourse of masculinity in the seventeenth century. As they self-consciously examined Spain's crisis and offered political and economic solutions, these same writers also offered a scathing critique of standards of masculinity. Using the figure of the ideal nobleman as a case stud...

Bernard Williams famously distinguishes "thin" from "thick" ethical concepts (Williams 1985, pp.140-142, 150-152). Examples of the former include the concepts of goodness, badness, rightness, wrongness, and obligatoriness. Examples of the latter include not just nice concepts like justice, fairness, and kindness, but also nasty concepts like chastity, slutiness, and poofiness. The nature and si...

A woman from birth to death lives her life for the welfare of others instead living herself. For such a in ancient times, many titles as filled with fear, modesty bordering on ignorance, and Coyness have been assigned woman. The restrictions that she has travel throughout through laid down way are pointed out gentle patriarchal way. In period, women forced various ways live slave lifestyle. Tho...