Citizenship: Rights, Duties, and Historical Evolution
Understanding Citizenship: Rights, Duties, and Evolution
A citizen is a person who has rights and the ability to exercise them. Politicians and citizens can possess a differentiated legal status that implies:
- Being part of a community of equals, regardless of their religion, gender, or culture.
- Participating in making decisions that affect everyone’s possibility of participation. This is only produced in democratic political systems.
- Participating in a common project of living according to an ideal
Understanding Perspectives: Embracing, Orb, and Outlook
Understanding Perspectives
Embracing: This refers to something that understands everything.
Orb: The outer limit of the world. It differs from the horizon; the world means a closed limit and conclusive, while the horizon is open and mobile.
Outlook: Point of view from which we see or understand something. The view depends on the ability and intention of the person who sees and understands. Because subjects are many and peculiar, prospects are many and varied.
Portion of truth: There is no absolute and
Read MoreSumma Theologica: Structure, Context, and Philosophy
The Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologica is the most famous work of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Although incomplete, the Summa Theologica is divided into three parts:
- The first part deals with God in itself and as a principle of all things.
- The second part deals with God as intelligence, will, man, and Christ.
- The third part deals with God made man.
Each part is divided into issues, which are further divided into articles. Each article carries a title beginning with “if,” but all articles follow the same
Read MoreNietzsche’s Philosophy: Key Concepts and Definitions
Nietzsche’s Philosophy: Key Concepts
Apollonian
Reference is made to at least two things culturally: a form of art, and an instinct which represents the will to power as a force of creation and conformation. The Apollonian-Dionysian is the symbolic expression of the ontological structure of the will to power and life. Apollonian expresses or symbolizes the brightness, harmony of form or order, the world of the beautiful appearance, and sound conformation force.
Becoming
Becoming expresses the most radical
Read MoreKey Philosophical Concepts: Definitions and Explanations
Key Philosophical Concepts
Material Cause: The matter, stuff, or substance of which something is made. One of Aristotle’s four causes.
Materialism: The metaphysical view that all reality consists of material or physical entities with their physical properties. Contrasted with Idealism.
Monism: The metaphysical view that all reality is one. Idealism and Materialism are examples of monism.
Moral Argument: A proof for the existence of God; God’s existence is the only adequate grounds to explain objective
Read MoreEssential Vocabulary for Travel and Social Interactions
Travel and Transportation
- Agreement: The act of agreeing.
- Airline: A system or organization that provides flights for passengers or cargo.
- Appointment: An agreement for a meeting arranged in advance.
- Balance: A state of being steady.
- Billboard: A flat surface on which large advertisements or notices are posted.
- Cruise: To sail on a pleasure trip.
- Damage: Harm or destruction that reduces value.
- Darkness: Having very little or no light.
- Decision: The act or process of deciding.
- Departure time: An act or instance