scholarly journals Corruption, Marginality and Social Disorder as Threats to National and Human Security in Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Philip Ogochukwu Ujomu
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

This essay focuses on the issue of corruption, marginality and the social disorder attending it, as threats to national and human security in Nigeria. It not only examines the problems of corruption in Nigeria and the implications of this for national security, but also, discusses the role of an ethical idea of citizenship in tackling corruption and reinventing the political community. In Nigeria, corruption has played a key role in aggravating the political and economic crisis besetting the country. Depreciation of human dignity and collapse of infrastructures have ensured the systematic elite misappropriation of state power, the primitive accumulation of capital, ethno-cultural intolerance and political manipulation in the society. This paper searches for a set of norms capable of mitigating needless dehumanization and inequalities, and improving welfare of the majority by evolving public citizens oriented to the common good.

Is architecture relevant for political theory?

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110636
Author(s):  
Bart van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Common ◽  
Build Environment

Is architecture relevant for political theory? That is the key question that structures this excellent collection Political Theory and Architecture, although a number of essays fit a broader formulated theme better, namely, concerning the political relevance of the organization and design of our built environment more generally, including architecture but also spatial planning and urban design. The collection demonstrates that our build environment is not merely a passive backdrop to a political community, but actively shapes aspects of our common political life. This constitutive nature of our built environment figures in many different guises throughout this volume. In this review article, I discuss some of these and conclude that concerns about the ‘common good’ and hence about the discipline of political theory should take reflections on urban design, planning, and architecture into account.

New Natural Law Theory and the Common Good of the Political Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
Daniel Mark ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Family ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
The Common

Some critics question new natural law theorists’ conception of the common good of the political community, namely, their interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas and the conclusion that the political common good is primarily instrumental rather than intrinsic and transcendent. Contrary to these objections, the common good of the political community is primarily instrumental. It aims chiefly at securing the conditions for human flourishing. Its unique ability to use the law to bring about justice and peace and promote virtue in individuals may make the common good of the political community critically important. Nevertheless, it is still not an intrinsic aspect of human flourishing. Unlike the family or a religious group, membership in a political community is not an end in itself.

scholarly journals The role of the social context in the history of historiography (on the example of formation German historical science of the 19th century)

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Serhii Petrovych Stelmakh
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
German State ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Nation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The 19Th Century

The external contexts related to historical science are considered: political, social, general cultural, educational, ideological, which had a significant influence on the formation of German historiography in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to the role of state support in the development of historical higher education and science. It is emphasized that the historical science in Germany was of a clearly pronounced national character and became an important factor in the consolidation of the German nation. It is emphasized that the «historicism», which was based on idealistic German philosophy, was the theoretical and methodological basis for the development of German historical science. Historical research and study of history in educational institutions have become important components in the formation of German burghers, who served the German state and worked for the common good.

scholarly journals Rousseau’s General Will

Poliarchia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 59-92
Author(s):  
Giovanni Caporioni
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Political Community ◽  
External Influence ◽  
The European Union ◽  
General Will ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Austerity ◽  
The Common

The advance of populist parties in the European Union can be interpreted as the sign of an expanding “frustration” about representation in a political sphere oppressed by economic austerity. In this context, the modern philosophical roots of an alternative conception of democracy, based on direct participation, appear to be worth of a careful scrutiny. This paper focuses on the notion of the General Will as described in The Social Contract. After a critical review of the antithetical conceptions of the General Will suggested by Rousseau, a coherent interpretation is proposed, obtained through an analysis of the text taken as a “self- -sufficient” unity: the General Will is pure “ambition” for an unknown common good, shared by all the members of a political community. However, it is argued that the participatory “machinery” of General Will is fundamentally incapable of resolving three serious problems that undermine the foundations of Rousseau’s ideal “République”, namely, 1. How the citizens can identify the common good without errors; 2. How the citizens can develop an ethical dimension by themselves, without any external influence; 3. How single individuals, seen not as active citizens but as passive subjects of the State, can protect themselves from the abuses of power.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ADVERTISING AND ITS ROLE IN MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Lyudmila L. Kalinina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Political ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Advertising

The article assesses the role of social advertising in the regulation of public processes. It is shown that at different stages of the historical development of Russia, the need for social advertising was different. Difficult periods of breaking the political and economic system of the country, severe crises, developments in the values of society created a serious threat to national security, and gave rise to the selfishness, cruelty, aggression, surrogate consumer culture. It was the social advertising that was supposed to contribute to the development of a strong socio-cultural basis; public awareness of the need for change; fostering a sense of civic responsibility in a person, including for their own actions; legal awareness; maintaining harmonious coexistence of society and the state. It is proved that today, when a serious test of the coronavirus pandemic fell on our country, social advertising should work to recreate the true human qualities, cementing the nation – compassion, clemency, kindness, and for emergence of a new culture that assumes maximum care for health. The author shows a change in the attitude of business and the population towards social advertising. She argues the need to expand the practice of using social advertising while increasing its communicative effectiveness.

Love of Glory and the Common Good

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Highest Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

How the city, the political community, may ask its citizens to sacrifice their lives for the sake of its preservation has plagued us since the birth of political philosophy. This article examines Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' attempt to solve this problem by reconciling the highest good of the individual and the good of the city by means of the love of glory. I contrast the central themes of Pericles' speeches in Thucydides, especially his renowned funeral oration, with other parts of Thucydides' presentation of Periclean Athens, in particular his famous account of the plague, to demonstrate his doubts about the efficacy of the Periclean solution to the political problem.

scholarly journals EDUCATION AS A FACTOR TO SUPPORT THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (48) ◽  
pp. 146-159
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Yuriiovych Panfilov ◽  
Olga Oleksandrivna Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Young People ◽  
National Security ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Social

The article specifies the role of education in supporting the national security of the state. It is substantiated that national security significantly depends on the state of education since it takes on the most important tasks for society to train the elite of society, management personnel, and highly qualified specialists in all sectors of the economy, affects changes in the social structure of society, and forms the political views of young people. The role of education in the development of critical thinking in young people is analyzed, which is especially important in the context of information war.

scholarly journals Vontade geral, soberania e liberdade política em Rousseau: algumas problematizações

Problemata ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Eduarda Santos Silva
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Will ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

Given the union of individuals by a convention, as idealized by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The social contract, the political body that is formed will be directed by the general will, which gives unity to the people, considering the person of each associate, their assets and their freedom. Although the general will is the foundation for the maintenance of citizens' political freedom, it is possible to ask whether it will really prevail in all spheres of civil society, if the individuals who deliberate in the exercise of sovereignty are sufficiently informed about what is good common, or if they are led to accept what suits the Legislator, that is, if the general will is not manipulated, corrupted or deceived by this extraordinary figure, considered a guide endowed with superior intelligence to better lead citizens to pass good laws and preserving the common good. We are interested, then, in contrasting the very important issue of the popular participation of individuals in public subjects, highlighted by Rousseau, with the apparent limits that such participation would encounter in a republican state, and its consequences for political freedom.

scholarly journals À la recherche de la vocation perdue. Plaidoyer pour l’enseignement de la littérature des siècles passés

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Tomasz Wysłobocki
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
History Of Literature

The aim of this article is to discuss the place of the literature of past centuries in the romance philology teaching programmes. I accentuate the social importance of literary subjects at the university in the making of future citizens responsible for the common good, as well as the social importance of literature itself. Furthermore, I emphasize the role of scholars who are assumed not only to bring knowledge to their students, but also to teach them essential social skills. The analysis is based on my ten-year academic experience of specialist in the history of literature and history of the French Enlightenment.

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