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  1. Jun 1, 2009 · While moral philosophers debate the standing of patriotism as an instance of the problem of reconciling universal moral considerations with particular attachments and loyalties, political theorists are primarily interested in patriotism as an ethos of the well-ordered polity and an antidote to nationalism.

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  2. Jul 28, 2020 · Abstract. “Patriotism” is a relatively young word in relation to other rhetorical terms of western political discourse; but its cognate “patriot” and that word’s etymological root in appeals to “patria” have antiquarian beginnings. Considering the various historical manifestations of the term, the purposes of this essay are threefold.

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  4. Jul 1, 2020 · Patriotism has often been negatively evaluated. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, said that “patriotism from an absolute perspective is simply another form of selfishness,” that social groups are held together by emotion rather than reason, and that love for one's country “slews into nationalism.” 1 This essay is an attempt to locate a kind of justifiable patriotism.

    • John E. Hare
    • 2020
  5. Dec 16, 2022 · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. DOI: 10.1093/0198293585.001.0001. Patriotism is the love for the republic, whereas nationalism is attachment to the spiritual and cultural unity of one’s people. The republican love, patriotism, is a charitable and generous love, and in its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally.

  6. 24. MORAL VALUE OF PATRIOTISM 25 political, economic, and international policies of a nation are those which are morally justifiable, patriotism is an evangel of peace and justice. Yet at the outset of any attempt to estimate the worth of patriotism we are met by the denial of the legitimacy of the feeling itself.

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  7. Jul 21, 2015 · Whereas the former is love of or loyalty to one’s patria, the latter is the political demand that one’s nation be a state. That demand is subject to well-known and probably intractable problems. In rough summary their differing views are as follows. John Kleinig thinks that patriotism understood as loyalty to one’s country is owed that ...

  8. 2. Patriotism is unethical because it implies "a blind deference to tradition" and sums it up in the Phrase, "my country, right or wrong". This has to be taken in context of the 20C when patriotism was part of the motor that drove the nationialisms that led to both World Wars; and that was immanent in the discourse of politico-economical ...

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