[Revised entry by Igor Primoratz on September 30, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Patriotism raises questions of the sort philosophers characteristically discuss: How is patriotism to be defined? How is it related to similar attitudes, such as nationalism? What is its moral standing: is it morally valuable or perhaps even mandatory, or is it rather a stance we should avoid? Yet until a few decades ago, philosophers showed relatively little interest in the subject. The article on patriotism in the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, reviewing the use of the term from the…
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