The Ethics of Patriotism: A Debate by John Kleinig -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Great Debates in Philosophy Title page Copyright page Acknowledgments Introduction

1 Patriotism and Morality 2 Our Debate about Patriotism 3 Defining Patriotism 4 Views about the Ethics of Patriotism 5 The Main Issues in the Debate about Patriotism References

Part One: Three Views on the Ethics of Patriotism

1 The Virtue in Patriotism

1 Some Definitional Preliminaries 2 Human Flourishing and Human Association 3 Flourishing and Civic Order 4 Some Cautions 5 Clarifying the Status of Patriotic Loyalty 6 Does Patriotism Encourage Bad Faith? 7 The Convergence of Patriotism and Nationalism 8 Conclusion References

2 The Case against Patriotism

1 Introduction 2 What is Patriotism? 3 The Problem with Patriotism 4 Life without Patriotism 5 Conclusion References

3 Patriotism

1 What Is Patriotism? 2 “Our Country, Right or Wrong” 3 A Central Moral Virtue 4 “If Right, to Be Kept Right; and If Wrong, to Be Set Right” 5 A Morally Indifferent Partiality 6 “A Lively Sense of Collective Responsibility” 7 Conclusion References

Part Two: Responses

4 Making Good on Patriotism

1 Identification 2 Patriotism’s Value 3 Making Patriotism Work 4 Patriotism’s Hazards References

5 Virtue for the Unpatriotic

1 Kleinig’s Case for Patriotism 2 Primoratz on Permissible Patriotism 3 Primoratz on Ethical Patriotism 4 Kleinig on Patriotism and Bad Faith 5 Virtue without Patriotism References

6 Keeping to the Middle Ground

1 Patriotism and the Ethics of Belief 2 Patriotism and Human Flourishing 3 Conclusion References

Part Three: Final Words

7 Final Words

References

8 Final Words

1 Patriotism and the Vices 2 The Nature of Patriotism 3 From Patriotism to Bad Faith 4 Alternatives to Patriotism 5 Conclusion

9 Final Words

References

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