CHAPTER 4 - ARISTOTLE Chapter 4 79 ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LAW by Fred D. Miller‚ Jr.1 4.1. Life and Writings of Aristotle Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. at Stagira in northern Greece‚ the son of Nicomachus‚ a physician of King Amyntas II of Macedonia. At age seventeen he entered Plato’s Academy in Athens‚ where he studied for nineteen years. In addition to composing a number of dialogues now lost‚ he may have then begun work on his Rhetoric. After Plato’s death (348) Aristotle grew alienated
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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public
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Aristotle Virtues Theory talks about doing the right thing because it is rights. Not doing the right thing because it benefits you or because something of your personal is at stake. It is also about understanding right from wrong and applying that knowledge to moral behavior. Aristotle believed that when making a decision morals tend to take over in more cases than none. The decisions that we make has to do with having the knowledge of understanding right from wrong. He also say that the right decisions
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Aristotle’s Virtue theory is based on Teleology and the Golden Mean. He says that to be virtuous that we need to act with excellence. He believed that everything on this earth has its own virtue‚ meaning that if it performs the way it’s supposed to by its nature then it is virtuous. He asserted that every event had four causes or four factors that work on it and to bring it into being; 1) Material Cause- the “stuff the thing is made of. 2) Efficient Cause- the force that has brought it into being
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Feldblum‚ this traditional citizenship based upon nation-state has four components-regulation‚
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who pays no mind to the public realm. He and I both agree that the majority of citizens today are idiots in that sense of the word. Bellamy addresses the fact that citizens in our society are completely disenchanted with politics‚ “Political citizenship is rejected as both too demanding and of dubious worth” (97). From my own experiences as a citizen of this society‚ I whole-heartedly agree with that statement. For the first election that I was eligible to vote in‚ my own father’s name was on the
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Citizenship Re-Acquisition of German Citizenship by former German Citizens Summary and Comment by Frederick S. Wyle and Daniel Eichmann This comment is based upon a more detailed paper on this subject (in German) by Daniel Eichmann‚ a German lawyer visiting in the United States. It does not deal with the re-acquisition or re-recognition of German citizenship that was lost by reason of NAZI laws between 1933 and 1945‚ laws
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mothers‚ who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of majority. Even if the child is born to an alien father and a Filipino mother‚ the Filipino citizenship of the mother will bestow natural-born Philippine citizenship upon the child PROVIDED his birth occurred on or after January 17‚ 1973 (date of ratification of the 1973 Constitution)‚ otherwise he followed the citizenship of the alien father and acquired at best only an inchoate Philippine citizenship which he could perfect by
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the steps to citizenship for immigrants and what are the privileges of being a citizen of the United States? I will begin my second paragraph talking about citizenship. “Citizenship is man’s basic right‚ for it is nothing less than his right to have rights” You can become a U.S. citizen by birth‚ through a process called “naturalization” “through derivative citizenship‚ or through acquired citizenship. Action and attitudes form the basics concepts of responsible citizenship. Some of these
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having introduced Citizenship Education was to prepare young people for their lives outside the school environment. This was to be achieved by giving them the knowledge‚ skills and understanding to be an active member of society. Citizenship lessons targeted key aspects of society‚ which were in most cases controversial‚ these subjects included current laws‚ duties and freedom‚ individual rights and responsibilities to the public as well as justice and democracy. Citizenship education also was
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