political science
Mohammad Ali Tavana; mahmoud alipour
Abstract
The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, green justice. The ...
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, green justice. The main idea of the collection of articles in the book is: sustainable development is not possible without citizenship, democracy and green justice. The assumption of these articles is that green citizenship can be established based on ethical recommendations and changing laws and regulations. It seems that the humanistic and legalistic approach leads to a thin green citizenship. On the other hand, this article shows that the approach of civil society (republicanism) has more potential for building green citizenship. According to this approach, moral commitment and responsible action towards the environment requires, above all, belonging to a new society (inclusive natural civil society) in which the relations of citizens are not based on social contracts but on civil friendship.But in practice there are serious obstacles to the formation of environmental citizenship: including competition for economic development and growth; Hardening of national identity; Reducing human action to utilitarian action, especially against nature
political science
Mohammad Ali Tavana
Abstract
Abdal-llah Belqiziz, a Moroccan philosopher in Arabic and Modernity: A Study of Modernist Discourse, poses the question of how he encountered Arab intellectual discourses (authentic, reformist, and liberal) with modernity and why these discourses have not succeeded in opening the way to Arab modernity? ...
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Abdal-llah Belqiziz, a Moroccan philosopher in Arabic and Modernity: A Study of Modernist Discourse, poses the question of how he encountered Arab intellectual discourses (authentic, reformist, and liberal) with modernity and why these discourses have not succeeded in opening the way to Arab modernity? According to Belqiziz, the main problem goes back to the theoretical framework of these discourses, which contains the following problems: 1. A mechanical definition of the relationship between oneself and another; 2- Linear view of history; 3- Incomplete understanding of modernity. In contrast to Belqiziz, the discourse of critical rationalism is the solution to these problems because of its reliance on the internal dialectic between self and the other, self and the other dialectical critique, nonlinear view of history (simultaneous intellectual history), cultural understanding of modernity, avoidance of absolutism, as well as the possibility of combining Western and Islamic. However, it seems that Belqiziz’s solution still has two fundamental problems: 1- The inevitability of modernity; 2- Lack of pure indigenous epistemological system and methodology for the transition to progress.
political science
mohamad ali tavana
Abstract
The book entitled, Citizenship Concept, defines the concept of citizenship as a model of liberal citizenship as a suitable model of the modern age, and criticizes its rival, i.e., Communitarian Citizenship. The book’s approach is largely philosophical. In this book, citizenship has been studied ...
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The book entitled, Citizenship Concept, defines the concept of citizenship as a model of liberal citizenship as a suitable model of the modern age, and criticizes its rival, i.e., Communitarian Citizenship. The book’s approach is largely philosophical. In this book, citizenship has been studied more as a theoretical concept rather than a socio-historical phenomenon. The most important argument of the book is: liberal citizenship, by recognizing equality, freedom and individuality, modern human relations with its society based on voluntary membership, civil, social, political and cultural rights, responsibilities (legal duties and moral obligations), and participation. In political and social affairs, it is thus the most appropriate way of regulating the political and social relations of mankind in the modern age, while Communitarian Citizenship, with an emphasis on the social status of individuals, elevates their collective identity to their individual rights. And thus becomes a totalitarian and oppressive political system. The author seems to have taken an abstract and optimistic attitude toward liberal citizenship, while he has confused congregational citizenship with the pattern of ruling the totalitarian regimes. Contrary to the notion of liberalism, society is prior to the individual, and people in the community get their own good, and there is no universal model for citizenship. Instead, it should have defended a local or native citizen.
