Citizenship Aesthetics
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Citizenship Aesthetics (公民美學 in Chinese) is a movement set forth by Council for Cultural Affairs
, Taiwan
that proposes an aesthetic style of practicing citizenship
. Citizenship aesthetians believe that an aesthetic style of citizenship can help set up the best of our world.
Citizenship aesthetics-based world is a world built on the model of citizenship aesthetics. A world such built would not reduce all worldly entities into resoucre materials, waiting for people to measure, manipulate and manufacture into products as to meet personal needs or wants. Instead, a world built on the model would break the modern technology enframing fate, and emancipate all enframed worldly entities as they essentially are, and set forth a holistic union space for them to poetically dwell and freely encounter with each other.
Aesthetic citizens are people that are engaged with the world in the aesthetic kind of ways—namely, existing, living, acting in the world, wherein all beings-in the world, worldly entities, natural as well as man-made, can show themselves truthly and encounter each other harmoniouly as they are.
According to Political philosopher, Hannah Arendt
, politics
is the noblest art for the realization of immortality. Politics is not necessarily ugly and deceitful tricks. For example, enacting citizenship aesthetics movement, citizen participation, such as general election
, could be turned into some sort of citizenship art making, aiming to create beautiful world for and in itself. Candidates and voters together construct the beautiful vision for citizen automous governance through sober reason, rich affections, as well as graceful artistic techniques. Putting behind us the harmful shadow cast over by the notorious election practices, we can reaffirme each other the wisdom and concern, light up again the real passion of full trust. We will believe again elections are opportunities for showing our love and concern about our homeland.
Citizenship aesthetics-inspired elections, which are modelled on citizenship aesthetics, would grand us promise to invite all being-in-the-world, local or global, past, present and future, all residents (including human, nature, devine, spirits and so on) come together hand in hand to bring out each other's best and set forth the happiest and richest well-being for all.
The young generation does not need to feel pushed off as to give up altogether the inalienable opportunities to take part in the noblest human endeavor, that is to participate in politics with the goal of pursuing immortality
. They are entitled to have more up-to-dated new century kind of election, such as on-line election. On-line voting mechanism with friendly accessibility, would help break the traditional election's time-consuming and resource-wasting patterns.
On-line elections would also help break the candidate-centered myth. With that myth bygone, no longer would the electorate have to passively put up with the candidate's unidirectional brainwash. Thanks to on-line election system integrating with all sorts of citizenship participation schemes, for example, real time referendum, voting, recalling, interactive public forum and so oneveryone can voice his or her opinions as much as he or she like.
With citizenship aesthetics-based election campaign, people can face up freshly to the real post-colonialism world realities, and say goodbye for good to all kinds of centralized viewpoints transmitted by colonists of whatever bloods. People are free to unearth the grace and the sublime of local worlds.
People are invited to reach out for real lifeworld
realities of multiple cultures and go beyond transcendence
to make true of holistic union. No longer are candidates or star campaigners able to monopolize campaign stage and to manipulate voters.
In the citizen forum, human and nature, individual and community, reality and ideal, sentiment and reason, all are perfectly in harmony. Works of election arts unfold natural and clear, inspiring, navigating, solidifying, and pulling altogether wisdoms and feelings, open up the life-world unity of alethia(un-concealment or truth), which commemorates, inherits, initiates, and unconceals the world of purity on this earth, an immortal life-world of the true, the good and the beautiful.
In brief, the citizenship aesthetics-based election should release multiple modes of creativity
, and say goodbye to the out-of-dated ugly election campaign culture.
Council for Cultural Affairs
The Council for Cultural Affairs is a cabinet-level unit under the Executive Yuan of the government of the Republic of China . It is to design the culture policy within Free Area of the Republic of China.-External links:*...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
that proposes an aesthetic style of practicing citizenship
Citizenship
Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
. Citizenship aesthetians believe that an aesthetic style of citizenship can help set up the best of our world.
Citizenship aesthetics-based world is a world built on the model of citizenship aesthetics. A world such built would not reduce all worldly entities into resoucre materials, waiting for people to measure, manipulate and manufacture into products as to meet personal needs or wants. Instead, a world built on the model would break the modern technology enframing fate, and emancipate all enframed worldly entities as they essentially are, and set forth a holistic union space for them to poetically dwell and freely encounter with each other.
Aesthetic citizens are people that are engaged with the world in the aesthetic kind of ways—namely, existing, living, acting in the world, wherein all beings-in the world, worldly entities, natural as well as man-made, can show themselves truthly and encounter each other harmoniouly as they are.
According to Political philosopher, Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
, politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
is the noblest art for the realization of immortality. Politics is not necessarily ugly and deceitful tricks. For example, enacting citizenship aesthetics movement, citizen participation, such as general election
Election
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
, could be turned into some sort of citizenship art making, aiming to create beautiful world for and in itself. Candidates and voters together construct the beautiful vision for citizen automous governance through sober reason, rich affections, as well as graceful artistic techniques. Putting behind us the harmful shadow cast over by the notorious election practices, we can reaffirme each other the wisdom and concern, light up again the real passion of full trust. We will believe again elections are opportunities for showing our love and concern about our homeland.
Citizenship aesthetics-inspired elections, which are modelled on citizenship aesthetics, would grand us promise to invite all being-in-the-world, local or global, past, present and future, all residents (including human, nature, devine, spirits and so on) come together hand in hand to bring out each other's best and set forth the happiest and richest well-being for all.
The young generation does not need to feel pushed off as to give up altogether the inalienable opportunities to take part in the noblest human endeavor, that is to participate in politics with the goal of pursuing immortality
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
. They are entitled to have more up-to-dated new century kind of election, such as on-line election. On-line voting mechanism with friendly accessibility, would help break the traditional election's time-consuming and resource-wasting patterns.
On-line elections would also help break the candidate-centered myth. With that myth bygone, no longer would the electorate have to passively put up with the candidate's unidirectional brainwash. Thanks to on-line election system integrating with all sorts of citizenship participation schemes, for example, real time referendum, voting, recalling, interactive public forum and so oneveryone can voice his or her opinions as much as he or she like.
With citizenship aesthetics-based election campaign, people can face up freshly to the real post-colonialism world realities, and say goodbye for good to all kinds of centralized viewpoints transmitted by colonists of whatever bloods. People are free to unearth the grace and the sublime of local worlds.
People are invited to reach out for real lifeworld
Lifeworld
Lifeworld may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together. For Husserl, the lifeworld is the fundament for all epistemological enquiries. The concept has its origin in biology and cultural Protestantism.The lifeworld concept is used in...
realities of multiple cultures and go beyond transcendence
Transcendence (philosophy)
In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning , of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages...
to make true of holistic union. No longer are candidates or star campaigners able to monopolize campaign stage and to manipulate voters.
In the citizen forum, human and nature, individual and community, reality and ideal, sentiment and reason, all are perfectly in harmony. Works of election arts unfold natural and clear, inspiring, navigating, solidifying, and pulling altogether wisdoms and feelings, open up the life-world unity of alethia(un-concealment or truth), which commemorates, inherits, initiates, and unconceals the world of purity on this earth, an immortal life-world of the true, the good and the beautiful.
In brief, the citizenship aesthetics-based election should release multiple modes of creativity
Creativity
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...
, and say goodbye to the out-of-dated ugly election campaign culture.