Ma`rifat

The topic of ways to recognize moral propositions is considered one of the topics of epistemology of ethics, and this article examines this issue from the perspective of Imam Khomeini (RH) using a descriptive-analytical method. He accepts reason, revelation, fame, nature, and intuition as ways of understanding moral propositions. Therefore, in addition to rational knowledge of moral precepts, it proposes the path of knowledge of revelation as a source of confirmation and complement to moral precepts. Attention to human nature and moral intuitions is another epistemological dimension of Imam Khomeini's (RH) perspective, which indicates the importance of paying attention to self-knowledge in the process of understanding moral propositions. It seems that, despite the positive points of Imam Khomeini's (RH) view, there are some ambiguities in this view, such as the fact that some moral statements, such as the ugliness of lying, are inherently rational from the perspective of the late Imam; but when this statement is removed from the generality and becomes detailed, such as lying to the enemy in order to keep secrets from the Imam, it is removed from the examples of lying, which is without rational reason and is ambiguous. Therefore, some moral precepts that imply the permissibility of lying to the enemy are based on revelation; it also seems that the way to know the nature independently is compromised.