What is Moral Patriotism? (Political Philosophy)
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- An explanation of moral or ethical patriotism which claims that to be a good patriot you must be concerned about the moral well-being of your country.
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This really appeals to me, it’s not about blind loyalty, but blind loyalty to the ideal that we’ve set forth to stand up to. That’s what I raised on, but I’ll be damned if I let anyone else but an American be the first to criticize.
I would definitely work to better my country in certain circumstances like a moral patriot, but I can imagine and have experienced situations where I'd outright condemn the actions of the government or my fellow citizens... I'd say I'm somewhere in the Instrumentalist or Liberal Patriot area of the spectrum.
I'd say there's another component to this in how strongly a person feels that their patriotism should guide their actions. Like, with moral patriotism you gave the example of being kind to a foreigner as a way to show patriotism, but there's a difference between being friendly and helpful when you just happen to bump into a foreigner & volunteering at a refugee camp full time...
Could you make a video on argumentation/discourse ethics or about ethical rationalism in general?
This moral patriotism fits nicely in to my care-adjusted universalism / cosmopolitanism. As a factor of owing greater responsibility to those with whom we are more interdependent, we are obligated to do what we can to improve them, in every way, including morally. This starts with ourselves, with whom we are most "inter"-dependent, and so to whom we owe a priority of care, and also the highest priority of improvement: we each need to take care of our own well-being first, and also, make sure that we are morally righteous people first. Then we must take care of our family's well-being and moral improvement; then our local community's; our country's; and eventually the whole world's.
Don't stay skeptical! It's a decent place to begin and a terrible one to remain. If you're always skeptical, you're never learning facts which are sufficiently true and stable to gain understanding from.
I think it becomes evident that the nation is just a construct that we take much to important. The nation is basically nothing else then a community with lots of added legal issues. Aside from being a handy term to handle in case you wanted to bring up your population against someone else that has done them no harm.
So once you realize this moral patriotism equals the behavior of a normal person with an intact moral compass, meaning that you would stand up against injustice or mistreatment against a person in your workplace, class, sports team or any other social environment you find yourself in.
As soon as we talk about nation people tend to get intimidated by the size and start to pretend it must be something completely different then any other social group or organization we are a part of. But it is not, it is the same there are only more dynamics at work because not every citizen personally knows and interacts with every other citizen of the same nation.
The size alone or the added dynamics do not change what i should be doing as an individual or what is demanded from me compared to smaller social groups. If we all did the same things they do in small group of peers enjoying a mutual hobby as citizen and in interactions with fellow citizens, nations would not be in such a miserable condition they are currently all around the globe.
So the term nation is a problem because it is just a smokescreen that keeps us from realizing what being a fellow citizen actually means, it means the same thing as being a neighbor, a team mate, a class mate, coworker or any other thing we do without much thinking. This can also mean to speak up and trying to change the course, it also means to exert the normal social mechanism to stop misdemeanor.
It does not mean to take revenge, to fight, live in feuds and hold grudges.
Or you could just be an individualist.
@@brandonwilliford8632 You could also be a banana, which is by the way equally well defined as your statement. An Indvidualist instead of what ? What do you even mean by individualist ?
You do realize that your comment adds nothing, because it does not actually say anything ?
@@manfredkandlbinder3752 ok, so? What does my comment have to add? Here’s an idea: stop being such a condescending jerkoff?
I like this kind of patriotism. I guess that my duty as a citizen is to address my country into a good-actions direction.
I'm a moral antirealist and this seems pretty appealing to me.
I’m none of these. I’m an individualist.
There's nothing moral about supporting an arbitrary special interest group, whether nation-state, sex, gender, sexual preference, race, socioeconomic status...