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On Patriotism

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This essay concerns the nature of patriotism. It focuses initially on the basic patriotic motive. Someone acts with this motive if and only if she acts on behalf of her country as such. It is argued that, intuitively, the basic patriotic motive suffices to make an act patriotic as far as motivation is concerned. The agent need not be guided by a sense of her country’s merits or feelings of love. The basic patriotic motive is further articulated in terms of a particular understanding of what it is for a country to be one’s own. In light of this articulation, the essay considers further the nature of patriotic acts, and discusses patriotic persons, and discusses the relationship between patriotism and pride.

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  1. University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Margaret Gilbert & Itzel Garcia

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  1. Margaret Gilbert
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  1. Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Mitja Sardoc

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Gilbert, M., Garcia, I. (2018). On Patriotism. In: Sardoc, M. (eds) Handbook of Patriotism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30534-9_51-1

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