Good Society: A Modaresian Jurisprudential-political Perspective

Martyr Modarres is considered as one of the brightest and most influential figures in social and political Iranian history. Having passed the highest degrees in religious jurisprudence and ijtehad, he made his political philosophy on the basis of the well-known “our politics is our religiosity, and our religiosity is our politics” slogan, establishing it on the basis of four foundations of human greatness, freedom, proper social and political behavior, and lawfulness.The good society, according to martyr Modarres, is the one in which the greatness of human beings is observed, freedom has high value, politics and religiosity have close relationship with each other,constitution, legislator parliament, and nation have a good place, state authority requires nation’s authority, and the law is respected and is in the focal point of both real and legal individuals.