تحلیل خودسازی به عنوان وظیفه اخلاقی از منظر فلسفه اخلاق اسلامی

This This study aims to reassess the place of self-cultivation within Islamic ethics and to clarify its relationship to the notion of moral duty. In this framework, self-cultivation is not treated as a merely recommendatory practice or an individualized spiritual exercise; rather, it is regarded as a fundamental dimension of ethical realization that is structurally connected to the formation and stabilization of moral character. Based on an analysis of the anthropological foundations of Islamic ethics, self-cultivation is understood as an inner and gradual process grounded in the qualitative transformation of human cognitive and volitional capacities—a process that relies on key elements such as deepened self-awareness, volitional commitment, and moral orientation, and that provides the conditions for the emergence and consolidation of virtues. Employing a transcendental–conceptual analytical method, the study proposes a five-component framework that reconstructs the classical tripartite model in Islamic ethical literature (purification, refinement, and the “greater struggle”) within a systematic and analytical structure. This framework comprises five components—deep self-awareness, meaningful goal-setting, authentic self-trust, growth-oriented self-critique, and adaptive self-governance—which collectively offer a multilayered and organized account of moral maturation. The analysis indicates that, within this framework, self-cultivation functions as a mechanism that not only facilitates individual transformation but also illuminates how moral action is actualized in social contexts. The findings suggest that the proposed framework is effective in explaining the role of self-cultivation in the coherence of moral character and in clarifying its relation to the teleology of Islamic ethics, thereby enabling a more integrated understanding of the connection between individual virtue formation and social moral responsibility.