Designing a Pattern to Classify Methods of Moral Training

Man's happiness in this world and the Hereafter relies on purification of soul,which is literally called "moral training". In this respect, it is necessary tofind methods and regulate them. The present paper tries to offer a pattern formethods of moral training, and regulate them according to the reality of deedperformance, with a logical and operational order, and people's differentlevels and abilities. On the one hand, in view of the fact that voluntary deedis based on insight, tendency and power of decision making, and the deeditself, accordingly, these methods are divided into three groups. On the otherhand, factors influencing moral training are divided into three groupspredisposing,positive, and removing the obstacles-, so these methods aredivided into other three groups. In addition, people are divided at least intothree groups according to their different levels and abilities. As a result,these methods are divided into even other three groups, accordingly. Basedon these preliminaries and multiplication of aforementioned groups, therewill be a pattern with twenty- nine sub-groups. Among the features of thispattern are: generality, logical order, emphasis on cognition, and graded andlongitudinal methods.