Islam And The West, the new book from Virtue Ethics Foundation co-founder, Ali Azam, is out now and available on Amazon. Muslims in the West are being perceived as ‘others’ and a barrier to modernity. The effects of this in recent years have...
Read moreWhy human dignity is so important for students – and how you can help!
There are so many pressing issues in the UK today – racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, knife and gun crimes. Even more significantly, there seems to be a lack of concern about others, due to...
Read moreWhy the current inclusion of character education in the Ofsted framework is insufficient
At the Virtue Ethics Foundation, we believe both the purpose of character education itself, and the purpose behind advocating character education need to be appropriately conceived and clearly identified. We take a philosophical position that we...
Read moreThe universal language of sociojusticism
The divide and schisms in the political spheres have all become but a source of fragmenting humanity. There is the left and the right; liberalism and conservatism; modernism and postmodernism; individualism and collectivism...
Read moreHumanity is an art, character is the key to it
Character Education For The Development Of Hilm
Shah-Kazemi, in his book The Spirit Of Tolerance In Islam, suggests that it is impossible to provide an accurate definition of the word hilm in a singular word. It does, however, encompass various meanings including forbearance, wisdom...
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