Philosophy 2810F/G Lecture Notes - Stoicism, Richard Rorty, Ethnocentrism

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Americans have frequently supported the principle of bande mataram giving the fact of being. American a special salience in moral and political deliberation. Emphasis on patriotic pride is both morally dangerous and ultimately subversive of some of the worthy goals patriotism sets out to serve. Rorty cannot even criticize ourselves well unless we also rejoice in our american identity and define ourselves fundamentally in terms of that identity. Politics of difference one based on internal divisions among america"s ethnic, racial, religious and other subgroups. Nationalism and ethnocentric particularism are not alien to one another but akin. Proponents of nationalism in politics and in education frequently make a weak concession to cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitan education a historical digression which traces cosmopolitanism to its origins and in the process recover some excellent arguments that have traditionally supported it. It is this community that is fundamentally the source of our moral obligations, we should regard all human beings as our fellow citizens and neighbours.

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