A look at justice in political freedoms from the perspective of Shia political theology

Document Type : Scientific & Research

Author

• Ali Mohammadi Zia

Assistant Professor of Golestan University of Medical Sciences

10.22067/epk.2024.84765.1280

Abstract

Achieving justice is a challenging issue in the society as the main goal of the Islamic government in the field of political freedoms, which has become an important issue with the expansion of the concepts of liberalism and democracy in the world today, is necessary to examine its dimensions. For this purpose, the present article is to investigate the way of realizing justice in political freedoms in response to the main question that how is justice realized in political freedoms based on Shia political theology? evaluates the way of realizing justice in political freedoms with a descriptive-analytical method. The findings of the research indicate that justice based on the component of equality includes political freedoms in all dimensions for everyone, but justice is based on the component of merit due to some requirements such as adherence to the laws and rules of Islam, security, and the interests of society, ccreates limits for it.

Keywords

• Justice
• political freedoms
• political theology.shia

Main Subjects

• Islamic Philosophy and Kalam

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