Sociologizam ili individualizam – o polazištu socijalne misli Murteze Mutaharija
Sociologism or Individualism – About the Guiding Principle of Morteza Motahari’s Social Thought

Summary/Abstract: Morteza Motahari (1919–1979) was a renowned Iranian philosopher, jurist, and sociologist from the end of the 20th century. He is the author of more than 60 books, 20 of which are directly connected to various sociologic topics. Motahari’s books became very popular upon his death and the historically significant statement by Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, stating that Motahari’s ideas were the essence of what the Islamic Revolution in Iran was striving for. Since then, Motahari’s books have been printed in more than fifty million copies in Persian, Arabic, English, and other world languages, which turned him into one of the most popular writers in the history of science. Motahari supported neither Durkheim’s sociologism nor Spencer's individualism, but he advocated for the third way of understanding society, according to which the primacy is attached simultaneously to an individual and society. This paper will try to present his basic ideas regarding the society definition, or, more precisely, whether a person creates the society or the society creates a person.

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