Open AccessCommunity Agency and Islamic Education in Contemporary Zanzibar
Author(s) -
Caitlyn Bolton
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of bahá’í studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2563-755X
pISSN - 0838-0430
DOI - 10.31581/jbs-30.3.320(2020
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , islam , state (computer science) , politics , liberalism , political science , human rights , sociology , political philosophy , dynamics (music) , environmental ethics , political economy , law , social science , law and economics , philosophy , theology , pedagogy , algorithm , computer science
Western liberal political philosophy, which undergirds the conception of the modern nation-state as theorized by European philosophers of liberalism from centuries past, is primarily concerned with the dynamics of rights and responsibilities between the individual and state institutions. In defining these dynamics, some philosophers held an assumption of human nature as inherently inclined toward selfish ends...