The Democratic Facets of the Ideal Political System in the Political Theory of Immanuel Kant and Jürgen Habermas
Subject Areas :hosseinali nozari 1 , ali imani 2
1 - political science and international relations,law and political science faculty,islamic azad university of karaj,iran
2 - Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Ayatollah Amoli University of Science and Research, Amol, Iran
Keywords: Communicative Rationality, right, Legitimacy, Republic, Deliberative Democracy,
Abstract :
Abstract: The concept of ideal political system and the identifying a political system with proper functions is a issue which has a long history in the philosophy of politics, its long history and its origin in political theory, at least in Plato's statements, in particular the treatise of the Republic and the treatise of Aristotle's Politics And his famous classification of political systems is evident. Two thinkers who have focused on the theory have been Immanuel Kant and Jürgen Habermas. Kant's ideal government is based on the law and the will of people . Its laws are based on the concept of the right and considering on the prior principles of reason such as freedom, equality and independence . In addition, it is governed by a representative system and separation of powers and calls it the republic . In the present day, the German philosopher and theorist Jürgen Habermas, despite the loyalty to the concept of liberal democracy, tried to find a solution to the failure of this type of democracy to achieve its goals by rebuilding it in its unique way. So he introduces a kind of democracy called deliberative democracy, In this type of democracy, communicative action and rational reasoning and the rule of communicative rationality are decisive elements. The present research seeks to explain the views of these two thinkers on ideal political system of the society.
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