We will revere and obey the City’s laws, and will do our best to incite a
like reverence and respect in those above us who are prone to annul them
or set them at naught.
We will strive increasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty.
Thus in all these ways we will transmit this City, not only not less, but
greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. (Quoted in Bennett
1993, 217)
Similarly, Thomas Jefferson once wrote to a friend, scolding him for not
being more active in national affairs, saying, “There is a debt of service due
from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature
and fortune have measured him” (Jefferson, quoted in Staats 1988, 605). The
democratic ideal clearly posits an active and engaged citizen, one propelled
at least in part by a commitment to serve others and to serve the community.
As one contemporary political theorist puts it, “Civic virtue, the cultural
disposition apposite to citizenship was thus two-fold, a willingness to step
forward and assume the burdens of public office; and second, a willingness
to subordinate private interests to the requirement of public obedience. What
Aristotle called the ‘right temper’ of a citizen was thus a disposition to put
public good ahead of private interest” (Ignatieff 1995, 56).
We will revere and obey the City’s laws, and will do our best to incite a
like reverence and respect in those above us who are prone to annul them
or set them at naught.
We will strive increasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty.
Thus in all these ways we will transmit this City, not only not less, but
greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. (Quoted in Bennett
1993, 217)
Similarly, Thomas Jefferson once wrote to a friend, scolding him for not
being more active in national affairs, saying, “There is a debt of service due
from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature
and fortune have measured him” (Jefferson, quoted in Staats 1988, 605). The
democratic ideal clearly posits an active and engaged citizen, one propelled
at least in part by a commitment to serve others and to serve the community.
As one contemporary political theorist puts it, “Civic virtue, the cultural
disposition apposite to citizenship was thus two-fold, a willingness to step
forward and assume the burdens of public office; and second, a willingness
to subordinate private interests to the requirement of public obedience. What
Aristotle called the ‘right temper’ of a citizen was thus a disposition to put
public good ahead of private interest” (Ignatieff 1995, 56).
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