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Simply Analyse The Origin Of The Western Civic Idea

Posted on:2006-05-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X G ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360155954221Subject:Political Theory
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The political democracy is one of the focal points of the political science. Democratic politics has been the valuable goal that the human politics is being developed all the time too. So,to study how to realize and stabilize democratic politics , there are important meanings. Historical and realistic experience indicate , the civic idea is closely linked with political democracy. With what of the civic idea directly determine the future and destiny of the political democracy Generally speaking, every country with strong civic idea, its political democracy is stabilized and operated freely too. For every country whose civic idea declines or lacks, it is difficult for its political democracy to operate , even difficult to set up. So, to study the civic idea and especially study its origin, there are important meanings on the theory and practice. From historical and logic respects ,this text make an elementary analysis to the origin of western civic idea ,among them relatively lay particular emphasis on the analyse from the historical experience of comparatively typical democratic states in the west.It attempt to state the positive relation between the economic prosperity, especially the development of the commerce and the civic idea. The full text divides into four major parts: The first part: the concept of citizen.To make define the content of the citizen concept and outside of .The citizenship means that he is a member of a political community and he has political position of formal confirm, the citizen concept means the membership equal, and means the independent positions of a citizen.The citizenship itself means the rights of a citizen.In addition to political rights, rights of a citizen also include economic and social rights. The citizen and the citizenry's differentiations lie in the politics and economy, the citizen and the people's differentiations lie in the individual and collectives, the citizen and the citizen's differentiations lie in the politics and geography. The differentiation of the citizen in politics and the citizen in law lies in the politics and law. The second part : the concept of the civic idea.The civic idea means that a citizen realizes own citizenship identity , political roles, and the relation between the nation and himself. realizes own rights and duties,realizes own incline of political value. The civic idea first includes that a citizen sees own political role and the relation between the nation and himself.That is to say ,each citizen belongs to own nation ,and each nation also belongs to own citizens.The civic idea second includes that a citizen knows own rights and duties .In addition to political rights, a citizen still possesses property rights and other rights.A citizen must still pay tax and undergo military service ,and implement other duties.The civic idea third includes that a citizen has the political liberty ideal.A citizen keeps himself from the slavery appearance in the process of obeying laws ,and acquires the liberty in the process of obeying laws.The power of a nation belongs to citizens, and each citizen contains a opportunity to serve as the public position. The third part : the origin of idea.A person's idea comes from a person's sensations and experiences, it is not born.Locke thinks that a person just have ideas while starting to have sensations. Hume thinks that our idea is a duplication of our before impression .Wundt thinks, in our idea world, each thing that we meet comes from our sensations.Max thinks that, a person's social existence decides his consciousness,and a person's consciousness at any time is only the existence for being aware of. The fourth part :the origin of the western civic idea .In the society of flourish economy and developed business , because of the actual existence of the authoritarian regimes , the dissatisfied and unjust fellings of citizens get strong increasingly, the civic idea produces immediately.From the experiences of the famous democratic nations in history,this thesis analyzes the origin of...
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