イアン ロバート ギブソン   Ian Robert Gibson   イアン・ギブソン    所属   京都外国語大学  外国語学部 英米語学科    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2020/03
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
招待論文	招待あり
標題	The Roots of Civic Engagement
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	研究報告集 SELL 第 36 号
掲載区分	国内
巻・号・頁	36,pp.23-38
概要	Civic Engagement might be defined as acting beyond one's one self to initiate constructive social change and work to aid society. The stress here is on the action. Its foundations can be traced back to the ancient Greek and Roman societies of two millennia ago. Greek and Roman Philosophers such as Socrates, Diogenes of Sinope, Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger and Marcus Aurelius held that we were social actors capable of virtue (in Greek: arête, excellence or flourishing of character) the principal human quality. By using our innate faculty of reason we could work to achieve virtue together with its subordinate values, wisdom, justice, courage and temperance. In this paper I will explain these foundations of civic engagement and explore why civic engagement is not just an important form of social action but in turn functions as a necessary part of human life