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The Position of Intellect in the… S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (155

               justice    and     truth     are          From      Sheikh      Saduq
               axiomatic         so        that       perspective, being essential

               considered as base in order            and axiomatic of intellect’s
               to  justify  other  ethical            rules     to     praise     and
               recognitions.  Thus,  Sheikh           condemn  of  actions  is

               Saduq can be accounted as              manifested towards intuitionism
               an epistemological generalist          in  ethics.  Intuitionism  in
               in  ethics.  In  this  approach,       ethics  believes  that  ethical

               to      recognize       ethical        principles  and  rules  are
               attributes  is  based  on              intuitive and self-evident so
               fundamental  characteristics,          that  no  need  is  for  logical
               and  ethical  recognitions             and psychological argumentation

               can  be  achieved  based  on           to  justify  to.  (Frankena,
               fundamental         principles.        2003: 215)

               (O'Neill, 1995: 15)                       In ethical non-naturalism,
                  Believing  in  the  referral        it  is  also  believed  that
               of good and bad actions to             ethical  theorems  and  rules
               divine knowledge and their             are      as      mathematical

               being      constant,     Saduq         theorems       class.    These
               stated  on  recognition  of            theorems        are     always
               goodness       and     badness         veracious  since  comprise

               which  emerged  simply  by             essential  axiom.  Therefore,
               having  awareness  of  an              the  ethical  basic  principles
               action. In addition, to know           and  comprehensions  consist

               non-axiomatic  objects  is             of essential axiom, and the
               achieved       by     referring        base  to  admit  them  refers
               toward axiomatics.
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