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Submitted by MOUNTHER19 on June 2, 2008
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In today’s society we all consider ourselves citizens or a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community. However at different points of our history this was not always so there were different classes and different ways that we thought of the people around us. There have been many terms for these classes depending on culture as well as many different ways these classes were treated. On top of all of this there was different ways one carried himself or herself with different values of excellence and price. This scholar is going to explain the difference between a citizen and subject as well as what arête and hubris stand for.
In many different cultures a citizen is considered to be something you are born into. However if we look back into history we see that being a citizen was a high honor and not something that could be entered into easily. In Greek history it is shown in many different situations as being something most can attain and in others is rather unattainable. Such as in Sparta unless you were in the political arena, of royal blood, or served in the military, you were a slave. In the Athenian way of life they pressed their way of life on other societies such as in the Melian Dialogue, it states “Under the command of Philocrates, son of Demeas, the siege was now pressed vigorously: and some treachery taking place inside, the Melians surrendered at discretion to the Athenians, who put to death all the grown men whom they took, and sold the women and children for slaves, and subsequently sent out five hindered colonists and inhabited the place themselves.” (page 54) This shows that citizenship is the ideal; they have hubris and try to destroy others who were different from them. They were either to be slaves or slaves who are raped, slaughtered, and murdered. There was no option here for them to be considered citizens.
There is however a difference between a subject and a citizen, a citizen has rights, a...
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