TY - JOUR ID - 29971 TI - EVALUATING THE CONCEPT OF “SELF” IN COMMUNITARIANS’S THOUGHT JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Abdollahpour, Mohammad AD - Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 42 IS - 2 SP - 129 EP - 141 KW - ... ... KW - atomism KW - Communitarians KW - Individulaized KW - Social and Situated Self DO - 10.22059/jpq.2012.29971 N2 - One of important critiques, communtarian to liberal Philosophy was in ontologic dimension upon concept of the Individual. They claims that sense “the Self” is part of Community, On Other hands, With highlight on essense Social of the Self, offers social picture of that. Because They belives that the Self has shaped in historical and social context, so far as ends, values, convictions resulting from the community. By Contrast, liberal philosophy in general and The Theory of justice of John Rawls in particular has emphasize on the picture of Individual and a priori Individualized. Hence, present essay attempet to evaluate only Ontological dimension in the thought of Communitarians, with supposing that output the claim within sphere political ontology, is merely alternative for that and its essence nothing that situated and social constructed Self. UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_29971.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_29971_f641810c16d7b118c666e443cd90fe5e.pdf ER -