Part 1: Imam Khomeini's Code of Ethics
- Imam Khomeini, Ethics and Politics
- Translator’s Foreword
- Letter of Appreciation
- Preface
- Part 1: Imam Khomeini's Code of Ethics
- Imām Khomeinī’s Code of Ethics
- Indescribability of the Human Being
- Man in the State of Nature
- Man as the Arena of Conflict between Good and Evil
- Right to choose and select
- Necessity of self-cognition
- Combat with the self as the major jihād {struggle}
- Regulation of Instincts
- Necessity of instincts for perfection
- Insatiability of instincts
- Social participation as a requisite of combat with the self
- This World and the Hereafter
- This world as the place of cultivation for the hereafter
- Which is the blameworthy world?
- This world and the hereafter as complementary to one another
- The Philosophy behind Suffering
- Is Knowledge a Mental Aid, or Burden?
- The place of knowledge
- 1. Knowledge makes a man
- 2. The universe itself is a large university
- 3. Knowledge as a requisite for prosperity
- 4. Knowledge and expertise as a criterion of superiority
- 5. Knowledge as continuous learning
- The instrumental role of knowledge
- The branches of knowledge and realms of human existence
- Ignorance as a pretext in neglecting knowledge
- Behaviour as Emanating from the Principles of Ethics
- Part 2: Ethics and Politics
- Part 3: Three Ethical Pillars of Politics
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
