How Is Patriotism a Virtue?
Alasdair MacIntyre once famously asked "is patriotism is a virtue?" but never quite answered the question. In this paper, I seek to provide a more concrete response by analyzing whether patriotism fits the model of an Aristotelian natural virtue. Since Aristotle himself does not offer an e...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2020
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Jahr: 2020, Band: 94, Seiten: 119-128 |
| RelBib Classification: | NCD Politische Ethik TB Altertum TG Hochmittelalter |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Alasdair MacIntyre once famously asked "is patriotism is a virtue?" but never quite answered the question. In this paper, I seek to provide a more concrete response by analyzing whether patriotism fits the model of an Aristotelian natural virtue. Since Aristotle himself does not offer an extensive discussion of patriotism as a virtue, I take my inspiration from St. Thomas who does clearly regard something like patriotism as a part of the natural virtue of piety. After exploring the significance of Thomas's key claim that patriotism is owed to the "sources of our being," I sketch the structure of moral virtue in Aristotle with an emphasis on his claim that all the virtues are . Finally, I show how patriotism fits the model of an Aristotelian natural moral virtue and conclude by addressing a few natural objections. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc202282133 |