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Cultural & Social Challenges
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Keywords
Virtue, citizenship, political theory, public policy
Abstract
In the twenty-first century, the United States of America has been caught in a time of increased polarization, the Republic has been fraying as the sense of community has cracked, where fanatics on the extremes of the political spectrum have contributed to the disruption of normal political order driven by normative agendas. The underlying political theories on which the nations was founded emerged from the ancient Greek philosophers and passed through the early Christian philosophers to the Framers of the Constitution of the United States of America. This article explores the foundations of citizenship and virtue as it applies to the American experiment. In the end, if the nation is to be preserved for future centuries, its citizens MUST engage with one another in a civil manner, discuss the issues that affect all citizens, consider alternatives, understand one another, and embrace the seemingly lost virtues upon which the nation was founded. Virtue and liberty must together always be in harmony with one another because when they do, citizenship blooms and flourishes.
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Citizenship and Virtue’ Are Requirements for Maintaining Liberty
Cultural & Social Challenges
In the twenty-first century, the United States of America has been caught in a time of increased polarization, the Republic has been fraying as the sense of community has cracked, where fanatics on the extremes of the political spectrum have contributed to the disruption of normal political order driven by normative agendas. The underlying political theories on which the nations was founded emerged from the ancient Greek philosophers and passed through the early Christian philosophers to the Framers of the Constitution of the United States of America. This article explores the foundations of citizenship and virtue as it applies to the American experiment. In the end, if the nation is to be preserved for future centuries, its citizens MUST engage with one another in a civil manner, discuss the issues that affect all citizens, consider alternatives, understand one another, and embrace the seemingly lost virtues upon which the nation was founded. Virtue and liberty must together always be in harmony with one another because when they do, citizenship blooms and flourishes.
