Arash Naraghi Lecture: “Ethics from the Perspectives of Religion and Psychology”

Arash Naraghi: “Guilt, Shame, and Disgust: A Discourse on the Role of Negative Emotions in Moral and Religious Education” – Lecture at the Ibn Sina Cultural Center, Irvine, June 29, 2017. In this talk, three negative emotions (guilt, shame, and disgust) and the role they play in moral and religious education are discussed. My argument is that guilt, with certain considerations, can play a constructive role in moral and religious education, but there are serious doubts about the usefulness and constructiveness of moral and religious educational systems based on shame, and it is better to distance oneself from such systems. Disgust, however, is an entirely irrational emotion, and its introduction into moral and religious educational systems must be seriously prevented. For example, the religious concept of “impurity” (najāsat), which is deeply intertwined with the feeling of disgust, especially when it enters the realm of beliefs and is applied to human beings, is a deeply destructive and unethical concept, and the religious legal and moral system must be decisively purged of that concept.

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