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  1. Jun 1, 2009 · In the 19 th century, Lord Acton contrasted “nationality” and patriotism as affection and instinct vs. a moral relation. Nationality is “our connection with the race” that is “merely natural or physical,” while patriotism is the awareness of our moral duties to the political community (Acton 1972, 163).

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  2. Patriotism, feeling of attachment and commitment to a country, nation, or political community. Patriotism (love of country) and nationalism (loyalty to one’s nation) are often taken to be synonymous, yet patriotism has its origins some 2,000 years prior to the rise of nationalism in the 19th.

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  4. Dec 16, 2022 · Patriotism, love for or devotion to ones country, as the dictionary definition has it, is a popular topic in the literature on political theory and philosophy. One reason for its popularity is probably the preponderance of conceptions that see it as moderate, in contrast to nationalism.

  5. 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...

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  6. Jul 21, 2015 · Igor Primoratz distinguishes between ‘worldly’ patriotism that can be morally acceptable if constrained by general moral principles and ‘ethical’ patriotism that, as a ‘heightened sense of collective responsibility’, can under some circumstances be properly demanded of the individual.

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  7. 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.

  8. Aug 2, 2017 · In a seminal paper, Alasdair MacIntyre ( 1995) has argued that patriotism is a key virtue of citizens, which supports the exercise of other moral and political virtues. According to MacIntyre, the precise content of all the virtues is derived from the particularistic morality of a community.

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