The Comparative Study of Iranian-Islamic Model of Progress and Western Models of Development with an Emphasis on Justice

Abstract

Justice is one of the most important value of spiritual values during the history of human civilization and has been favored by thinkers of different schools. It is effective for a political system to determine approach to issue of justice for designing and codifying theories and models of development. This paper tries to respond to this question that “what are distinctive features of justice in comparing the Iranian-Islamic model of progress with western models of development?” while comparing the place of justice in the Iranian-Islamic model of progress with western models of development. To achieve this objective, comparative, analytic and descriptive methodology has been used and validated Islamic sources and statements of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei have been referred to in order to make inferences. The findings show that the Iranian-Islamic model of progress is seriously distinctive from the western models of development in defining justice, desirable politico-economic system, determining justice-liberty relation, development-progress and justice and role of state in establishing justice and illustrating its final goals for establishing justice.

Keywords

• Justice
• Socialism
• Liberalism
• Western Models of Development
• Iranian-Islamic Model of Progress