Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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PhD Student, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Professor, Philosophy of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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Abstract
Understanding aesthetics in moral and spiritual experiences is an important aspect of human education that promotes the cognitive sphere, expands knowledge and awareness, and directs the human tendency to love and seek beauty in order to discover truths and acquire perfection and resemble absolute beauty.This study addresses the significant challenge of fostering moral and spiritual aesthetic competencies, arguing that neglecting these can lead to a substantial gap in aesthetic education. It begins by analytically defining these competencies based on the developmental documents of the Iranian education system. Subsequently, employing a reconstructed form of Frankena's practical inference, the research deduces the corresponding educational principles. Key aesthetic competencies identified include a developed aesthetic instinct, the ability to recognize and comprehend divine beauty in everyday life, the purposeful application of moral and spiritual beauty in speech and action, the belief in beauty-loving and beauty-seeking as core components of divine human nature, and the skill of acquiring perfectionist aesthetic experiences. The derived educational principles emphasize the superiority of rationality over sensibility, the promotion of aesthetic sensitivity from lower to higher levels, responsibility and a sense of duty, the teleological nature of creation's beauties, attention to intelligible and spiritual beauties, moral and spiritual commitment, the sublimation and exaltation of aesthetic emotions, and the integration and synergy of aesthetic competencies.
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