TY - JOUR ID - 65179 TI - A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE ATTITUDES OF KANT AND MILL ON HUMAN DIGNITY AND THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Mahmoudi, Seyed Ali AD - Assistance Professor, Department of International Relations and World Studies, School of International Relations, Minstry of Foreign Affairs of the I.R. of Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 48 IS - 1 SP - 143 EP - 162 KW - Absolute Power KW - Citizen KW - Equality KW - liberty KW - Rights of Women DO - 10.22059/jpq.2018.219454.1006936 N2 - In connection with human dignity and rights of women, Kant and Mill retain a same viewpoint, i.e., they cognize that women own intrinsically human values. They also reject instrumental usage of women, but in relation to women’s social and political rights, their ways are separated: Kant considers women as man’s property and passive citizens. He denies the social and political rights of women. Conversely, Mill defends women’s social and political rights on the bases of liberty and equality. So, Kant’s standpoints on human dignity of women on the one hand, and their social and political rights on the other, suffer from contradiction, while Mill’s thoughts are consistence in this context. One can understand the essence of difference between these two philosopher’s notions by using hermeneutic method (text and context). The controversy on women’s rights mainly emerges from effects of historical developments particularly economic, social and political affairs, within Kant’s and Mill’s thoughts. UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_65179.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_65179_168a42928d526d082da814dfc1f79b17.pdf ER -