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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. 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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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PatriotismPatriotism - Wikipedia

    Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state. This attachment can be a combination of different feelings for things such as the language of one's homeland, and its ethnic, cultural, political, or historical aspects.

  6. 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.

  7. Jul 21, 2015 · Behind this problematic characterisation of patriotism is a tendency to define the patria in very thin terms and in a form that makes it susceptible to a certain kind of philosophical evaluation. Thus a patria is understood as a set of properties that can either be evaluated as morally good or bad, or appraised as being true or false.

  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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