PHIL202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Status Quo, Quid Pro Quo, Unbridled
11 Apr 2017
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Valuing a virtue vs. valuing our virtue: but the patriot des not value in the same way precisely similar merits and achievements when they are the merits and achievements of some nation other than his or hers. For he or she at least in the role of patriot values them not just as merits and achievements, but as the merits and achieves of this particular nation. Where and from whom i learn the principles and precepts of morality are irrelevant: macintyre"s account: Where and from whom i learn my morality is crucial. It is an essential characteristic of the morality each of us acquires that it is learned from, in, and through the way of life of some particular community. The object of patriotic loyalty: one"s country and polity, doesn"t mean that a patriot will support any government in power in her country. Rather: the nation conceived as a project.
