PHIL 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nationstates
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Friday, february 26, y experience the world, not to things. Why citizenship theory: animal rights theory: To be a citizen means: being a full and equal member of a particle nation-state. 1: cultivates relations of trust, solidarity, and mutual understanding, which are necessary for democracy and the welfare state. Friday, february 26, y: is a source of value in itself: Bounded communities and territories create important senses of identity and belonging for their members. They are the site of distinctive relationships and cultures. Nationality everyone is a citizen of some country - rights of residence and return: 2. Popular sovereignty citizenship in this sense means belonging to the people in whose name the state governs (zoopolis, 56: 3. Democratic political agency citizenship, in this view, involves being the co- author of the laws, and not just a passive recipient of the laws (zoopolis, 56)