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A Plea for an Ethics of Citizenship

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Francis Aung Thang Shane
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2026
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Southeast Asia is undergoing an uneven democratic recession, part of a global slide since 2006. Rights and institutional checks are eroding—evident in Myanmar’s coup, Thailand’s continued military tutelage, and backsliding in the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte. Yet across the region many religious actors, including Catholic institutions, have been reticent or ambivalent toward public democratic engagement—constrained by repression, appeals to neutrality, or institutional self-preservation. Against this backdrop, the article traces the Catholic Church’s historical movement from early skepticism to active support for democracy within its magisterium and explores how Catholic Social Teaching (CST) in its ethical teaching can more holistically respond to democratic erosion in Southeast Asia. It argues that CST provides a foundational moral framework centered on human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity, yet lacks an explicit ethics of citizenship to guide active participation in politically constrained contexts. Building on this gap, the article proposes a four-dimensional, virtue-based framework of citizenship across political, economic, cultural, and ecological life, rooted in CST’s moral anthropology. It calls for a more explicit and systematic articulation of this ethic within its social teaching and pastoral formation. In doing so, the article moves beyond diagnosis to offer a theological and practical model for forming citizens capable of renewing democracy in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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10.5281/zenodo.18336589 · 10.67641/mstr.v27i2.1000

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Francis Aung Thang Shane. A Plea for an Ethics of Citizenship. 2026. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-2b49851ca21e7f706fa8dfc9dde10002/

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Francis Aung Thang Shane. (2026). A Plea for an Ethics of Citizenship. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-2b49851ca21e7f706fa8dfc9dde10002/
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Francis Aung Thang Shane. A Plea for an Ethics of Citizenship. 2026. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-2b49851ca21e7f706fa8dfc9dde10002/
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Francis Aung Thang Shane. A Plea for an Ethics of Citizenship. 2026. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-2b49851ca21e7f706fa8dfc9dde10002/

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