Justice from the Perspective of John Rawls and Allameh Tabatabaei

Subject Areas : علوم سیاسی

Ali Ghadimi ¹ , Garineh Keshishyan Siraki ² , Hassan Khodaverdi ³

1 - Department of Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Political Science and International Relations, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-09-23 Accepted : 2023-09-23 Published : 2022-04-01

Keywords: Discrimination, justice, Allameh Tabatabaei, Corruption, John Rawls, Ricoeurian hermeneutics,

Abstract :

Justice has always been the most basic issue and the most important ideal of man since the beginning of civilization on earth, and for this reason, humans have tried to turn it into reality. Parallel to this importance, the thinkers of every age have tried to explain the limits and gaps and realize it. Because the lack of justice in the society causes the emergence of discrimination, oppression, corruption, and the lack of public consensus, and a society based on injustice and heterogeneity emerges. As a result, in order to pass from this society and move towards a healthy society where justice is based, idealistic thoughts are created to reach the desired society. This creates schools, movements and revolutions. This process shows the importance of the fact that in the process of the evolution of civilization, human beings have always had the concern of justice in front of them and it is not limited to a specific group or nation. People everywhere and at all times have the desire to achieve justice. In this article, while examining the origin of justice in the thoughts of John Rawls and Allameh Tabatabaei, this concept was compared from the perspective of two thinkers. Rawls from the contemporary West and Allameh Tabatabaei from contemporary Islam are among the most prominent philosophers and thinkers in the world who look at the concept of justice with different intellectual bases. But their theoretical output has similarities in the field of the concept of justice. In this article, using the hermeneutic recovery method, the challenges in the thoughts of Rawls and Allameh Tabatabaei in the field of justice were investigated.