Abstract
<jats:p>The Reconstruction of the “Metaphysical Good”: Morality in Taha AbdurrahmanrnIn this study, Taha Abdurrahman’s religion-based moral philosophy is analyzed in terms of its offering an alternative moral paradigm to the secular moral paradigm dominant in the New Age. In the first part of the study, new conceptualizations of moral philosophy are demonstrated. In this part, the history of moral philosophy is reread through the transformation of morality from the “metaphysical good” to the “ethical good”. In this section, the main lines of moral philosophy are discussed within the framework of the thoughts of certain philosophers, taking into account the change in the general paradigm in the field of morality. In the second part of the study, Taha Abdurrahman’s attempt to construct an alternative paradigm against the reduction of morality to the realm of individual preferences and freedoms is analyzed. Here, Taha Abdurrahman’s intellectual adventure, epistemological method, his approach to human nature, his approach to reason and his view of religion and morality are discussed. In this way, the question of how these ideas present a holistic structure -just like the paradigm of the ancient world- is revealed. In the end, the research, which reveals the general outlines of Taha Abdurrahman’s moral philosophy, is synthesized by considering the interrelatedness of the concepts he used.rnKeywords: Philosophy of Religion; Religion-Morality Relationship; Taha Abdurrahman; Metaphysical Good; Paradigm of Divine Contract and Trusteeship; Human; Religion; Morality; Reason</jats:p>