Assertion: patriotism | /r/HasProperty | moral duty
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text: Unless a new, more convincing case for patriotism can be made, we have no good reason to think that patriotism is a moral duty.
text: If patriotism is neither a moral duty nor a supererogatory virtue, then all its moral pretensions have been deflated.
text: In the remainder of the paper I will discuss only one such argument, which seems to me fundamental: an argument for the view that patriotism is a moral duty.
text: For, if patriotism is a moral duty, then education for patriotism should be required; if it is not, it is either unacceptable or only permitted.
text: In this context, therefore, the answer to the previously mentioned question mostly depends on how convincing the argument is that patriotism is a moral duty.
text: First, that his assertion that patriotism is neither a moral duty nor a moral virtue, but at best merely morally allowed, presupposes the usual “understanding of patriotism as special concern for the political, economic and cultural well-being” of one’s own country.