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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.
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But the good citizen, Aristotle goes on to say,
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is not the same as the good human being, right?
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Where the good citizen is relative to the regime,
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you might say regime-specific, the good human being,