Should we teach patriotism?

Studies in Philosophy and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-173

  Archard, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic education; Critical reason; Liberalism; Patria; Patriotism, nationalism; Pluralism; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039378081     PISSN: 00393746     EISSN: 1573191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005138406380     Document Type: Article

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1. Board of Education, Welsh Department: 1916, Patriotism. Suggestions to Local Education Authorities & Teachers in Wales Regarding the Teaching of Patriotism, HMSO, London.
2. Archard, David: 1995, 'Political Philosophy and the Concept of the Nation', Journal of Value Inquiry 29, 379-392.
3. Miller, David: 1995, On Nationality, Clarendon Press, Oxford;
4. Tamir, Yael: 1993, Liberal Nationalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ;
5. Buchanan, Alien: 1991, Secession, Westview Press, Boulder, Co.;
6. Taylor, Charles: 'The Politics of Recognition', in Amy Gutman (ed.), Multiculturalism and the "Politics of Recognition", Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 25-73;
7. Walzer, Michael: 1983, Spheres of Justice, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, Chapter 2 'Membership'.
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11. Considerations on Representative Government in John Stuart Mill, Three Essays, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 381-382.
12. Liberal Nationalism, p. 118.
13. Ibid., p. 163.
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16. ; 'In Defence of Nationality', Journal of Applied Philosophy 10 (1993), 3-16.
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18. Scruton, Roger: 1990, 'In Defence of the Nation', in J.C.D. Clark (ed.), Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain, Macmillan, London, pp. 53-86, and reprinted in his The Philosopher on Dover Beach, Carcanet, Manchester, 1990.
19. Galston, William: 1991, Liberal Purposes: Goods. Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State, Cambridge, pp. 243-244.
20. Callan, Eamonn: 1997, Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy, Oxford, p. 106.
21. Ibid., pp. 105-108.
22. Ibid., p. 111.
23. Ibid., p. 112.
24. Ibid., p. 113.
25. Ibid., p. 119.
26. Hobsbawm, E. J.: 1990, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge, p. 12.
27. Creating Citizens, p. 122.
28. Ibid., p. 123.
29. Jürgen Habermas has famously offered an influential defence, in the German context, of 'constitutional patriotism', loyalty to the liberal democratic principles of the postwar constitution; see his 'Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe', Praxi International 12 (1992), 1-19.
30. See his Is Patriotism a Virtue?, The Lindley Lecture, The University of Kansas, 1984.
31. Liberal Nationalism, pp. 65 and 66.
32. On Nationality, pp. 25-26.
33. I argue this in my 'Nationalism and political theory', in Noel O'Sullivan (ed.), Political Theory in Transition, UCL Press, London, forthcoming 1999.
34. Maclntyre, Alasdair: 1984, Is Patriotism a Virtue?, The Lindley Lecture, The University of Kansas, p. 4.
35. I endorse something very like his own ideal of making the best of one's own tradition in my, 'Three Ways to be a Good Patriot', Public Affairs Quarterly 9(2) (April 1995), 101-113.
36. Creating Citizens, p. 119.
37. Ibid., pp. 130-131.
38. White, John: 1996, 'Education and Nationality', Journal of Philosophy of Education 30(3), 327343.
39. Ibid., pp. 336 and 337.
40. Ibid., p. 335, my emphasis.
41. Tamir, Yael: 1996, 'Reconstructing the Landscape of Imagination', in Simon Caney, David George and Peter Jones (eds.), National Rights, International Obligations, Westview Press, Oxford, pp. 84-101, at pp. 94-98.
42. Walzer, Michael: 1994, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame.
43. See Walzer's much-cited discussion of Indian caste society in his Spheres of Justice, A Defence of Pluralism and Equality, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983, pp. 312-316.
44. Miller, On Nationality, p. 10.
45. Tamir, Liberal Nationalism, p. 73.
46. See, for instance, the sections on History and English in The National Curriculum, Department of Education, HMSO, London.
47. Billig, Michael: 1995, Banal Nationalism, Sage, London.
48. Creating Citizens, p. 99.
49. The painting is reproduced, and story of its slashing recounted, besides an article by Roy Porter on the real and mythical significance of the Battle of the Boyne, The Observer, 12 July 1998, p. 31.
50. Thompson, Leonard: 1985, The Political Mythology of Apartheid, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. 213-214.
51. Walzer, Michael: 1997, On Toleration, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, p. 90.
52. Creating Citzens, §36 'Whose Tradition?' 47 Ibid., p. 125.