The Philosophical Analysis of Originality of Monotheism for Moral Virtues and Presenting a New Definition and Model of Moral Virtues

The main question in this article is as follows: “What is the origin of moral virtues?” to answer this question, this study uses a descriptive-analytical method and relies on philosophical foundations to explain the meaning of monotheism and prove its originality for moral virtues. It also concludes that the basis of values and virtues traces back to the human’s relationship with God; thus, what causes moral value for all acquired traits and human’s volitional behaviors in various insight, attitude and behavioral domains is monotheism. This leads us to consider monotheism as the origin for moral virtues. Perfect monotheism necessitates that man does not regard anyone as the partner for God in the realm of beliefs. In the level of attitude, he must not have independent leaning towards anyone and anything except God; and in practice, he must obey God’s orders independently. Indeed, monotheism is the source of faith in the level of insight, is the source of piety in the level of attitude, and is the source of servitude in the level of behavior. And these three virtues are absolute, and the condition for other virtues to be virtue is for them to be an instance of these three virtues.