Let look at our civic duties in a different perspective
Let look at our civic duties in a different perspective! Determining what our civic duties are is problematic then—although this is often true of just about everything else in philosophy. But perhaps the issues raised against theories of civic responsibility suggest that a far better thanks to believe citizenship is in terms of civic virtue instead of civic obligation. once we break an obligation, we deserve blame for it, but usually we deserve little credit for fulfilling it. If I fulfill my obligation to not steal, I don’t deserve a medal or maybe a pat on the rear . But if I break it, I certainly deserve blame and maybe even some quite penalty. So “obligation talk” tends to specialise in some necessary minimum that has got to be met. In contrast, virtue is about going beyond the required minimum—it involves an inner state of character that often expresses itself in praiseworthy action. So, thinking of citizenship in terms of virtues involves asking: What quite attitudes,...