ABSTRACT
The inquiry has been put as “the requirements, status and nature of the citizen role in modern society,” with some consideration of educational implications. This is clearly an interdisciplinary endeavor, drawing on political theory in its focus on the citizen and the state, on moral philosophy in its theory of virtues and the good man, on sociology in its invocation of status and role theory as well as the matrix of society, and on history in pointing to modernity. The theory of virtue is one of the most difficult chapters in moral philosophy. And the matter seems simple. The concept of role is used to analyze aspects of interpersonal relations, to set expectations and claims and obligations. A person expects a doctor to go about curing him of his ailment, not to experiment on him, nor to be intent primarily on making money.
