Islamic Politics Research

Islamic Politics Research

Investigating the Significant Relationship among Cultural Policy-Making, Protecting the Political System, and Imam Khomeini (R.A.) Based on the Theory of Lakatos

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Professor of Sociology, Cultural and Social Studies Research Institute
2 PhD Student in Cultural Policy Making, Cultural and Social Studies Research Institute
Abstract
Cultural policy-making and its implementation has always been a way for political systems to transmit their ideals and wishes to social agents in the form of executive instructions (History); however, researchers have ignored scientific investigation of the executive dimensions of the effect of politics on culture. (Background) Here, analysis of the effects of Imam Khomeini's cultural policies on the basis of the methodology of Lakatos has remained unknown. (Problem) Therefore, the following questions are raised: how can the compatibility of the methodology of Lakatos on the cultural policies be shown? And of course, what is the result of this compatibility? (Question) The present article assumes that the pattern of Lakatos provides a clear answer to this question. (Hypothesis) The present paper seeks to explain the compatibility of the method of Lakatos (Methodology) and the works of Imam Khomeini (R.A.) using the pattern of Lakatos. (Objective) The finding is that: the core of Imam Khomeini's political thought has the capability of compatibility with contemporary philosophical investigations and even, the Islamic republic can be regarded as a research project that can protect itself more than ever in addition to its epistemological and metaphysical richness provided that it interacts with other theories (Finding).
Keywords

Lakatos Imre & Alan Musgrave (ed.) (1922). Criticism and the growth of knowledge, Cambridge University Press, London.

  • Receive Date 30 September 2016
  • Revise Date 10 November 2016
  • Accept Date 18 December 2016