01431nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002500060245003200085260001300117300003500130520096100165773001501126906001501141942000701156952011001163  c516323d516323210223b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHare, John E.925090  aPatriotism & moral theology  aDaedalus  a149(3), Summer 2020: p.201-218  aThis essay examines the question of the moral justification of patriotism, given a Kantian view of morality as requiring an equal respect for every human being. The essay considers the background in Kant’s moral theology for his cosmopolitanism. It then considers an extreme version of cosmopolitanism that denies a proper place for love of one’s country, and it engages with a contemporary atheist cosmopolitan, Seyla Benhabib, suggesting that there are resources in Kant’s moral theology to ground the hope that she expresses but does not succeed in grounding. Finally, it considers patriotism as a perfection of cosmopolitanism, in the same way that love of an individual can be a perfection of love of humanity. The essay suggests that defensible versions of cosmopolitanism put constraints on what kind of love of one’s own country is morally permissible. But these constraints require the background in a Kantian moral theology. - Reproduced   aDaedalus    aPATRIOTISM  cAR  00102ddc40709390414aIIPAbIIPAd2021-02-23h149(3), Summer 2020: p.201-218pAR124396r2021-02-23yAR