Islamic Politics Research

Islamic Politics Research

Modelling the Policy of Social Justice in post-Islamic Revolutionary Iran; An Answer to the Paradox of Two Ontological and Normative Narratives

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Associate Professor of Department of Law and Political Science, Kharazmi University of Tehran
Abstract
In the long-standing philosophical and social thinking, justice-seeking ideal has always had a prominent place, (History) but this ideal in both ontological and normative narratives is faced with paradox; (Problem) a problem which has not been systematically challenged yet. (History) The main question of the present article is: what is the answer of the Islaic Revolution to justice-seeking ideal in two ontological and normative narrations? (Question) Modelling the ideal of social justice in the Islamic Revolution of Iran simultanously implies two dimensions of individual actualization and social conformity. (Hypothesis) The present paper, along with investigating the paradox of these two narrations, seeks to present a model of social justice which is comatible with the words of the founder of the Islamic Revolution and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic. (Objective)
The article uses historical and text-oriented hermeneutic methods in studying the formation of communities and institutions in the post-revolutionary period and thinking about the general policies of economic, social, and cultural development programs. (Methodology) The implication of the ideal of social justice of the Islamic Revolutionary of Iran on two ontological and normative narrationssimultanously on two dimensions of social conformity and individual actualization and the comformity of this concept with distributive justice in the sense of equal opportunities, decreasing class distance and fulfilling basic needs of deprived people in the society are among the findings of the present article. (Finding)
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Volume 3, Issue 8 - Serial Number 8
December 2016
Pages 33-56

  • Receive Date 26 December 2015
  • Revise Date 02 February 2016
  • Accept Date 11 March 2016