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ment as Moral Rearmament International (MRA) calling for 'moral and spiritual renewal' founded by the Christian Evangelist FND Buchman in 1920s and base its teaching on the four absolutes 'honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love'. Principles of character ethics are, thus, self evident and can be validated by any individual. It is almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning, and loyalty to them. Even though they might be submerged or numbed by such conditions or disloyalty. A German philosopher, Ernest Thalmann, once said: Whatever course you may pursue in the future the prerequisites for your behaviour are inherent in your character. A Chinese saying reads 'a person's character is formed along the course he pursues'. This meaning is carries in their saying: Saw an act and you shall reap a habit; Saw a habit and you shall reap a character; Saw a character and you shall reap a fate. An act is something done or an aggregate of things done, the social implication of which things is clear to the doer. A habit is a disposition or a tendency constantly shown to act in a certain way. Character is an aggregate of the most stable psychic traits of a personality manifested in a person's acts. Character is defined by a noted soviet psychologist B. G, Ananyev 'as a manifestation of the personality which expresses the main trend of a person's life and is revealed in a mode of action peculiar to this personality. He emphasizes that fate has been invented by weak people to justify their bad acts, nasty habits and offensive characters and to be able to shift the blame for things to others. Every body is a master of his own fate. And all this is under the control of conscience which is the person's evaluation of his own acts. Pangs of conscience are a person's feeling of moral responsibility to society for his acts, the feeling experienced when these acts are compared with moral norms. All this conforms with the Sura: 91:7-10 of the Holy Koran that reads: By the spirit and the proportion and order given to it. And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right truly he succeeds that purifies it and he fails that corrupts it' . God created the spirit and gave it order, proportion and relative perfection in order to adapt it for the particular circumstances in which it has to live its life. He breathed into it an understanding of what is sin, impiety, wrong doing and that is piety and right conduct, in the special circumstance in which it may be placed. This is the most precious gift of all to man, the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong. The Sura stresses man learn that his success, his prosperity, his salvation depend on himself, on his keeping his soul and spirit pure as God made it, and his failure, his decline, his perdition depend on his soiling them by choosing the evil. This is true for all creations, Moslem or not and religious or not. This proves the Oneness of God and the Unity of the Creator. All people are created to be good but it is only for them to take the right path. Whenever, man deviate from the right path God send his messengers to right the wrong., with Mohammed, peace be upon him, being the last. A person's moral qualities are the most important traits of his personality, dominating over all its other traits and determining his behaviour. These qualities largely depend on the person's world outlook, i.e. his views and conceptions of the surrounding world, the natural and social phenomena. A person's world outlook is based on his knowledge, but the moral qualities of the personality are determined both by the person's world outlook and moral requirements. A felt need produces a feeling of desire. An active de |
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