MC 202 Lecture 1: MC 202 Lecture Notes Number 1

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The idea of citizenship: historical and intellectual foundations. Roosevelt"s four freedoms speech: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. Different than being friends, students, married: enduring impact of the historical rise of citizenship on our understanding of citizenship today, the global challenge to citizenship. Only in recent years that citizenship has become problematic. Makes us question or abandon the idea of citizenship. Tyranny of the self-evident=cognitive defect that keeps us from knowing something about the world. Political activity (voting, office) is a positive good for the individual that does it, not just for the community. Citizen properly speaking is the democratic citizen. Not a timeless idea but a historical result. So indebted to the idea of active citizenry that it"s positively misleading as a way to describe our own situation. Modern representative democracy can not produce genuine citizens. The classic model of citizenship is tyrannical and hypocritical.

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