Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD Student in Political Science - Iran Issues, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
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Assistant Professor and Faculty Member, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
10.30510/psi.2022.318674.2772
Abstract
Today, democracy has been proposed as the most desirable biopolitical way and all political systems use the label of democracy to gain legitimacy and continuity of life and claim such legitimacy by creating some democratic political institutions. Nevertheless, every thinker has paid special attention to it. In this article, we try to study democracy and its principles in the religious views and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, in the framework of Skinner's hermeneutic methodology. By studying the views and ideas of Mujtahid Shabestari as a religious thinker and influential in the intellectual currents of Iran after the revolution, a democratic interpretation of religion can be given to his thought and he with a hermeneutic view, a modern interpretation of traditional concepts such as justice, council, council. And ... presented that is compatible with contemporary human understanding or modern understanding of religion. Also, Mujtahid Shabestari has tried to reconcile religion and modernity, and to offer a modern and time-friendly interpretation that is in line with the spirit of the time, and with this approach to modern concepts such as democracy, with the principle of freedom and equality, Believes in the existence of "Muslim democracy" and believes that these two principles should manifest themselves in the heart of society with different traditions as the core of the regime everywhere, and the separation of religion from politics, the secularism of politics and The government believes.
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