Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Omid Reza Janbaz
• Ahmad Ali Akbar Mesgari

Abstract

Nowadays, many scholars refer to humans as social actors. These scholars believe that the realization of humanity and, thus, flourishing of individuality depend not on divided action and abstract reflections of individual people but on responsible participation of each member of human society in his interactions with the world and other humans. The scholars see humans not as individual subjects but as social subjects. This article is an attempt to explain the theoretical basis of this approach. For this purpose, it will consider this ideain one of its most fundamental modes of occurrence, i.e. Hegel's thought. Hegel's notion of the individual subject in thethought of his intellectual ancestors and then his approach in showing men as social subjects will also be addressed

Keywords

• Kant
• Hegel
• Categories
• individual subjects
• social subjects
• Language
• labor
• State