PENDIDIKAN AKHLAK IBNU MISKAWAIH DAN IMAM AL-GHAZALI DAN RELEVANSINYA DENGAN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Ibn Miskawaih is known as the first Muslim intellectual in the field of moral philosophy. He is known as a historian, philosopher, doctor, poet, and linguist. As with Ibn Miskawaih, Imam al-Ghazali is a person who loves science, a person who likes to find the truth. Imam al-Ghazali studied various branches of science such as religious knowledge, ushul science, mantiq, rhetoric, logic, kalam science, and philosophy. By his advantages that he had made, Imam Ghazali was not satisfied, until he became a Sufi. Therefore, the Thought of Ibn Miskawaih and Imam al-Ghazali should be said as multi-scientific Muslim figures. By his knowledge that he had, there can be no doubt that the thoughts of Ibn Miskawaih and Imam al-Ghazali can provide changes in science, especially in the field of morality. The religious, critical, and humanist thoughts of Ibn Miskawaih and Imam al-Ghazali united abstract thinking with very logical practices and it showed coherence and consistency that it could be used as references for the development of moral education, especially in Character Education in Indonesia, especially in this era where humans have not been able to maintain moral values in aspects of life and continue to experience moral decadence.