Aristotle Citizen

In Athens and Rome, citizenship was to be honored and protected. There were many requirements to become a citizen, so not everyone could have it. The Roman Republic allowed free men, women, and children to have citizenship, but the Athens only gave citizenship to free, native-born adult males. Although it might seem like the citizenship system was better in Rome, the system in Athens was better because citizens were given equal rights, Athenians ostracized citizens so there is no dictator, and every citizen could become officials.

According to the Oxford dictionary the term citizenship can be defined as: “The state of being vested with the rights and privileges, and duties of a citizen.” In the short story ‘Borders’ by Thomas King the term citizenship is of main focus. Through the many borders that are presented within the story, King argues that citizenship overlooks culture and heritage, instead focusing on a single border: that being where the individual resides. The short story is narrated from the young boy’s perspective, as him and his mother struggle to cross the Canadian-American border to visit the young boy’s sister Latitia. The young boy and his mother are not able to cross the border

Rome had a better system due to the vast population, wider acceptance of citizens, and an organized Senate. It is important to include those specific attributes in an empire for organization and prevention of overpopulation. According to the background essay, citizens of a state or empire not only meant meeting certain responsibilities, but also enjoying certain rights. Citizenship is also defined as a status given by a government. In the modern world citizenship involves a balance between individual rights and responsibilities. In Rome however, the idea of a good citizen was particularly different. In contrast to modern day citizens, Roman citizens were looked upon how they acted with their family, neighbors, and property. Rome had a population

Within each regime, there are the farmer, the working element and craftsmen, the marketing element and traders, the laboring element, the warrior element, the priests (Aristotle skips this sixth element but suggests this possibility), the rich, and the magisterial (1290b:40; 1291a:5-35). Within regimes are two distinctive classes and forms of government which are the

Citizenship can be defined as the position or status of being a citizen in a particular country (Oxford Dictionaries, 2016). This definition is not very broad, nor does it cover the many aspects of citizenship that exist in the 21st century. It is not only about being a legal citizen of a particular country, it is also about being a social citizen. You can be a citizen of Australia but choose to live elsewhere for the majority of your life. In terms of citizenship it is relevant on a political and social level. If you are actively contributing to the country in which you live in some ways you are fulfilling your duties as a citizen.

Aristotle’s society in The Politics, is that of a realistic society, a city of man. Aristotle defines a citizen as a political animal, which means that for man to optimize the society in which he lives in, he must be politically active (Aristotle 1253a). By nature, they want to cooperate together in society. Aristotle defines a citizen as a person who has full political rights to participate in judicial or deliberative office. (Aristotle 1275b) Each citizen has the ability to possess moral virtues. This is in contrast to Plato’s ideal state, where only the ruling class is able to be politically involved. Each citizen is able to posses private property, for one should call the city-state happy not by looking at a part of it but at all the citizens (Aristotle 1329a). This means that all classes of the state as a whole should be happy, not just one sole tier.

Become a citizen of one of the best nations in the world is a privilege that not many people have. I’m talking about the United States of America. If you are an U.S natural born citizen you have rights and responsibilities that protect you based on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution. People who are in the position to become U.S. citizens gain the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizenship as natural born American with the only restriction that they can’t be eligible for President of the United States.

She quotes straight from the constitution and some widely known dictionary writers such as Webster giving her a strong argumentative base. "Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution for the United States of America.” Without the right that the Constitution brings us, we wouldn’t have rights therefore the United States wouldn’t be a good place to live in. The Constitution brings us the right of freedom of speech (first amendment) , the right to bear arms (second amendment), and the right to protect against unreasonable government actions such as search and seizure of person property (fourth amendment). Being an American citizen means that you have rights that they would like you to fulfil. As an American citizen is it voluntary to vote, but others are required such as obeying the law and paying taxes. The Magna Carta, John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, and the Petition of Rights explains the rights and the responsibilities of an American citizen.

Furthermore, one would have to determine what an ideal citizen is, since that may be different for every country/state. Personally being an American citizen, and how America operates to privilege (some) Americans over others in Americans, as well as European nations/developed countries over developing countries and the use of the term third world countries proves to be problematic with the global citizen agenda. America is not/was not built upon taking all people into consideration when making laws that would govern people within its borders, and by looking out for their people, the people in return did/do things that benefit their government, hence the citizen word comes up in a broad way. However, when people such as enslaved/stolen Africans were brought to America and helped build this economy up to what it is today, receive nothing from that contribution at all, America in itself cannot say it produces good citizens nor promotes all citizens to be good morally. Especially when it allows inequality socially with resources and financially based on skin color, as well as other petty factors. That would imply that all people on American land receive equal services for abiding by American laws, and that is

How do you relate the title "Citizen" to the book? Why do you think the author titled it so?

Aristotle also agrees that slavery is sort of wrong because of slaves created by law. A great example used is that of a war and the winning side making the side that lost slaves even though some of them aren’t natural slaves. Aristotle then explains the difference between the relationship between slave and master and political rule. He says that the rule of a household is a monarchy, for every house is under one head: whereas constitutional rule is a government of freemen and

The permanent residents in a country, who have particular duties and rights as full member in political community is, define as citizenship (Masilamani, 2015). Furthermore, the citizenship indicates that the comprehensive rights and privileges for citizens in modern nation state. The first concept of citizenship in modern society was made in early age by liberal thinker. During the historical evolution, the various groups of laborers, female, and blacks challenged against old concept of citizenship. The modern citizenship concepts, which was recognized by liberals were only applied for man’s right, and excluded the rights for laborer and minor groups in actuality. In addition, the limits of the old liberal citizenship concepts differed from over time. The contemporary concept became more flexible and open depends on political, cultural and social circumstances, which complements the limits in old concepts of liberal

With regard to the concepts of citizenship, there have been a significant variety of understandings. Specifically, in Marshall’s perspective (1950, p30), citizenship consists of civil, political, and social citizenship. In addition, Marshall argues that the development of civil citizenship expanded, involving political citizenship and social citizenship. Based on the three-dimension model of citizenship, Marshall, in

The book, The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens, by Matthew R. Christ, considers the manifestations of bad citizenship in Athens that had previously not been as closely considered by other scholars. Scholars often have a romantic view that the citizens of classical Athens aligned their interests with those of the state. Christ argues against the notion and he argues that some citizens diverged from this view in pursuit of their own individual interests. The primary examples brought forth by Christ are evasion of draft, cowardice on the battlefield, and evasion of war tax and liturgy.