Written in the last year of the First World War, when patriotism was a burning question, this dissertation asks what patriotism really is and whether it is good. Reidenbach separates its impulses of attachment and antipathy, the habits that train it and the beliefs that support it, from the country as protector to the oneness of country and self.
A careful philosophical study for readers of ethics and the wartime debate over nationalism. Download the free EPUB.