Ideas of Kant and Habermas in Iran

Ramin Jahanbegloo - an Iranian philosopher, now living in Canada - gave an interview in 2006, in which he evaluated the influence of Western ideas (liberalism, Kant, Habermas and marxism) on the protest movements in Iran. Here are some excerpts from the interview: "Thanks to the recent discovery and translations of the schools of liberal thought dominant in the Anglo-American world, as found in the works of Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Karl Popper, and an appreciation of older traditions of liberalism (Kantian, Millian or Lockean), a new trend of liberalism has taken shape among the younger generation of Iranian intellectuals." "Habermas’s...

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