Introducción al superciudadano: la ciudadanía entre Nietzsche y el republicanismo
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Corporación Universitaria Remington
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La propuesta republicana sobre el papel que debe de asumir la ciudadanía en la construcción y la consolidación dela democracia a través de la participación activa en los escenarios políticos lleva a cuestionarse: ¿hasta qué punto esposible alcanzar la figura de un ciudadano responsable y comprometido con la vida política? La respuesta obligada a laanterior pregunta parece apuntar a la educación de un ciudadano republicano como método efectivo para hacer frentea las dificultades que afronta la democracia. Sin embargo, esta virtud cívica exigida lleva a pensar que el ciudadanoideal de la democracia se parece más a un superhombre que al ciudadano común. El ciudadano republicano es una especie de superciudadano. Por este motivo, la comprensión de este ciudadano, que se debate entre sus preocupacionesprivadas y las exigencias de la vida política, a partir de los obstáculos que encuentra Zarathustra cuando intenta enseñar una naturaleza sobrehumana, puede arrojar luces sobre el predicamento en el que se hallan los Estados democráticos cuando quieren educar un ciudadano con características más que humanas.Palabras clave: ciudadanía, democracia, Nietzsche, republicanismo.
The republican proposal regarding the role that citizenship must play in constructing and strengthening democracy through active participation in political scenarios raises this question: to what extent is it possible to achieve a responsible citizen, engaged in political life? The obligatory answer seems to point towards the education of a republican citizen as an effective method to deal with the problems democracy faces nowadays. However, this civic virtue suggests that the ideal citizen required by democracy is somehow a super-citizen. For this reason, understanding this type of citizen, one who struggles between their own private concerns and the demands of political life, on the basis of those obstacles encountered by Zarathustra in his attempt to teach the more-than-human nature, might shed light on the predicament of democratic states in trying to teach more-than-human features to a citizen.
The republican proposal regarding the role that citizenship must play in constructing and strengthening democracy through active participation in political scenarios raises this question: to what extent is it possible to achieve a responsible citizen, engaged in political life? The obligatory answer seems to point towards the education of a republican citizen as an effective method to deal with the problems democracy faces nowadays. However, this civic virtue suggests that the ideal citizen required by democracy is somehow a super-citizen. For this reason, understanding this type of citizen, one who struggles between their own private concerns and the demands of political life, on the basis of those obstacles encountered by Zarathustra in his attempt to teach the more-than-human nature, might shed light on the predicament of democratic states in trying to teach more-than-human features to a citizen.
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Ciudadanía, Democracia, Nietzsche, Republicanismo, Democracy, Citizenship, Nietzsche, Republicanism