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This issue received a kind of classic formulation
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in Aristotle's distinction of what he called
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the good human being and the good citizen.
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For the good citizen-- we'll read this chapter later on in
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the Politics-- for the good citizen you could say
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patriotism is enough, to uphold and defend the laws of
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your own country simply because they are your own
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is both necessary and sufficient.
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Such a view of citizen virtue runs into the obvious objection that the
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good citizen of one regime will be at odds with the good citizen of
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another: a good citizen of contemporary Iran will not be the
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same as the good citizen of contemporary America.