Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Sareh Larijani ¹
• ahmad karimi ²

¹ Ahlul Bayt International University

² Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of Quran and Hadith, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

One of the most important philosophical and political issues in the current decades is women’s rights, freedom, and gender equality, which has led to the emergence of various philosophical, political and social movements known as feminism. In this article, we examine and evaluate the views of a contemporary philosopher named Jonathan Wolf. In a discussion entitled "Individualism, Justice, and Feminism," Jonathan Wolff examines women’s rights and the views of some feminists on the concept of justice and its relationship to women’s rights. Criticizing feminists, Wolff seeks to provide an effective solution to women’s problems in various socio-political spheres by explaining the theory of "positive discrimination." This descriptive-analytical study aims to answer a key question: Will Wolff’s theory of positive discrimination solve women’s problems? In other words, this article examines Wolf’s theory - which is very much based on Rawls individualism and liberalism - and his critiques of feminists and attempts to evaluate his views. The results showed that the theory of positive discrimination that Wolff chose to defend the rights of women, often created other problems and the reason was the lack of attention to the innate nature (fitrah) of men and women and the natural status of the family.

Keywords

• feminism
• positive discrimination
• natural rights
• Jonathan Wolff
• human rights