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Jun 1, 2009 · If patriotism is neither a moral duty nor a supererogatory virtue, then all its moral pretensions have been deflated. It has no positive moral significance. There is nothing to be said for it, morally speaking.
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Although the term “loyalty” has its immediate philological...
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Jul 28, 2020 · In reality, of course, “patriotism” is neither a moral nor a political term of discourse peculiar to the United States but rather as history goes, a relatively new word of eighteenth-century origin. Its etymological roots in patria are as we shall see, much older, indeed, archaic.
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Jun 10, 2022 · Updated on June 10, 2022. Simply stated, patriotism is the feeling of love for one’s country. Demonstrating patriotism—being “patriotic”—is one of the necessities of being the stereotypical “ good citizen .”. However, patriotism, like many well-intentioned things, can be harmful when taken to an extreme .
- Robert Longley
Greek and especially Roman antiquity provide the roots for a political patriotism that conceives of loyalty to the patria as loyalty to a political conception of the republic. It is associated with the love of law and common liberty, the search for the common good, and the duty to behave justly toward one’s country.
- Andrea Baumeister
Dec 20, 2007 · The strong moral reading of constitutional patriotism, outlined here, always (and not contingently, as with liberal nationalism) contains what one might call a “normative surplus” that serves as a basis for civic empowerment, dissent, and—at the limit and as a kind of litmus test—as a justification for civil disobedience, or what some ...
- Jan-Werner Müller
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Jul 1, 2020 · This essay examines the question of the moral justification of patriotism, given a Kantian view of morality as requiring an equal respect for every human being. The essay considers the background in Kant's moral theology for his cosmopolitanism.
Jul 28, 2020 · This chapter examines the idea of using citizenship as a justification and motivation for patriotism, and the issue of whether a plausible liberal view of patriotism implies that citizens have a special moral duty to be patriotic. It argues that a liberal moral...
