THEO1088 Lecture 24: PULSE Lecture 24 Notes
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Speech: deliberate and about both the expedient and the inexpedient, and the just and the unjust: gives person ability to be a citizen, vs. voice. A citizen in this case is not just being born there (as it is now in the united. Sameness in the state comes from the sameness in the constitution: not sameness in the people or the physical space, way in which it is organized makes it the same over time. Functions of citizens differs, but they have a common business/end. The state is composed of unlikes, just as the individual living being: rational part of the soul attempts to rule the appetitive part. Therefore, the excellence of citizens cannot be the same. Common end = salvation of community = good life. Special citizen function vs. other members of the community: sharing in administration of justice, hold office, good for all.
