Lecture
Ethics, Decline, Modernity, and Religion: A Critique of Several Assumptions
This lecture critiques several common assumptions about the relationship between ethics, decline, modernity, and religion. In this program, Mohammad Mansour Hashemi seeks to question simplistic notions of moral decay, the role of religion, and the meaning of modernity.
About this video
In this video, Mohammad Mansour Hashemi addresses four important and controversial concepts: ethics, decline, modernity, and religion. The focus of the lecture is a critique of several common assumptions; assumptions that sometimes view modernity as the direct cause of moral decay, or introduce religion as the sole guarantor of ethics, or explain decline with a simple, linear narrative.
The discussion gains importance because concepts like decline and ethics carry heavy evaluative and political weight in Iran's public and intellectual discourse. With an analytical approach, Hashemi attempts to clarify the relationship between these concepts and show that judging modernity, religion, and ethics requires conceptual differentiation and the avoidance of overgeneralization.
This lecture is suitable for audiences interested in philosophy, ethics, religious studies, modernity, and the critique of contemporary culture. The program's subject is particularly important for those who wish to understand more precisely the relationship between tradition, modernity, public morality, and the intellectual condition of Iranian society.
