Kinds of Patriotism

Chapter 2
 Objectives:
At the end of the session, the student should be
able to:
• Trace the historical background of the origins of
Patriotism
• Understand and internalize the political issues on
Patriotism
• Discuss and summarize the concepts of
Patriotism as far as its impacts to law enforcers is
concern
 Introduction

• We refer to our country as our motherland. This further

proves that we must have the same love for our country
as we have for our mother.
 Introduction

• Patriotism does have great importance in developing the

country. It eliminates any selfish and harmful motives
which in turn lessens corruption.
• Similarly, when the government becomes free of
corruption, the country will develop faster.
 Cosmopolitanisms

• Every true patriot is cosmopolitans and every genuine

cosmopolitan is a patriot.
• Cosmopolitans serve their country and seek to uplift it
intellectually, materially, and morally.
• They educate the best members of humanity and
facilitate their society’s wellbeing.
 Cosmopolitanisms

• When nations learn to respect their traditions, they will in

their own separate ways increase the collective strength
and beauty of the entire world.
• Every patriot is honor-bound to serve his country with all
strength.
 Objections to Cosmopolitanism

• It is impossible to imagine a sane person for whom one

small part of the world does not mean more than all the
other places in the universe combined.
• We are only born once, in a single and unrepeatable
place, into a single family.
• A person, who claims to love every nation to the same
degree, and in the same way, is a liar.
 Objections to Cosmopolitanism

• Patriotism is more a matter of feeling than of intellect

• Cosmopolitanism is a matter merely of the brain
 Objections to Cosmopolitanism

• We should understand cosmopolitanism in the following

way:
o Listen to the needs of your country
o Heed the wisdom of your people
o Dedicate yourself to their wellbeing
o Don’t hate other nations
o Don’t envy their happiness
o Don’t prevent other nations from achieving their goals
 Objections to Cosmopolitanism

• We should understand cosmopolitanism in the following

way:
o Listen to the needs of your country
o Heed the wisdom of your people
o Dedicate yourself to their wellbeing
o Don’t hate other nations
o Don’t envy their happiness
o Don’t prevent other nations from achieving their goals
 Seven Types of Patriotism, and
each needs to be judged on its
merits
1. Extreme Patriotism
2. Robust Patriotism
3. Moderate Patriotism
4. Deflated Patriotism
5. Ethical Patriotism
6. Exclusive Patriotism
7. Inclusive Patriotism
 Extreme Patriotism

• Machiavelli, “human nature being what it is, if they

propose to do their job well, they must be willing to break
their promises, to deceive, dissemble and use violence,
sometimes in cruel ways and on a large scale, when
political circumstances require such actions.”
 Extreme Patriotism

• Machiavelli, “When the safety of one’s country wholly

depends on the decision to be taken, no attention should
be paid either to justice or injustice, to kindness or
cruelty, or its being praiseworthy or ignominious.”
 Extreme Patriotism

• This type of patriotism is extreme, but by no means

extremely rare. It is adopted much too often by
politicians and common citizens alike when their
country’s major interests are thought to be at stake.
• “Our country, right or wrong”
 Robust Patriotism

• “Is patriotism a virtue?”

• Alasdair MacIntyre, “In and through the way of life of
[one’s] community”.
• Moral rules are justified in terms of certain goods they
express and promote; but these goods, too, are always
given as part and parcel of the way of life of a community.
 Robust Patriotism

• “I can only be a moral agent because we are moral

agents. Detached from my community, I will be apt to
lose my hold upon all genuine standards of judgment”
• It is defined as a special concern for one’s country’s well-
being, and that is not the same as an exclusive and
aggressive concern for it.
 Moderate Patriotism

• Its adherent will show special concern for his country and
compatriots, but that will not prevent him from showing
concern for other countries and their inhabitants.
• This kind of patriotism allows for the possibility that
under certain circumstances the concern for human
beings in general will override the concern for one’s
country and compatriots.
 Moderate Patriotism

• It is not enough that the country is her country, she will

also expect it to live up to certain standards and thereby
deserve her support, devotion and special concern for it
well-being.
 Deflated Patriotism
• Gratitude is probably the most popular among the
grounds adduced for patriotic duty.
• Echoing Socrates in Plato’s Crito, Maurizio Viroli writes,
“we have a moral obligation towards our country because
we are indebted to it. We owe our country our life, our
education, our language, and in the most fortunate cases,
our liberty. If we want to be moral persons, we must
return what we have received, at least in part, by serving
the common good.”
 Deflated Patriotism

• If patriotism is neither a moral duty nor a supererogatory

virtue, then all its moral pretensions have been deflated.
 Ethical Patriotism

• A patriot of this, distinctively ethical type, would want to

see justice done, rights respected, human solidarity at
work at any time and in any place.
• But her patriotism would be at work in a concern that her
country be guided by these moral principles and values
which is more sustained and more deeply felt than her
concern that these principles and values should be put
into practice generally.
 Exclusive Patriotism

• It is not welcoming or generous.

• It celebrates the acquisitive individual and lone
entrepreneur. It tells us that taxes on the wealthy slow
economic growth and deter innovation
 Inclusive Patriotism

• It has always sought to protect our democracy –

defending the right to vote and seeking to ensure that
more are heard.
• It doesn’t pander to divisiveness, as does the alternative
patriotism that focuses on who “doesn’t belong” because
of racial or religious or ethical differences.
• It is isn’t homophobic or sexist or racist.
 Inclusive Patriotism

• It confirms and strengthens the “we” in “we the people of

the Philippines.
• It is our national creed. It is born of hope.
 Reference books:

Character Formation 1: Nationalism & Patriotism

(A Textbook for Criminology Students and Practitioners)
By Danilo L. Tancangco, Ph.D

Character Formation 1: Nationalism & Patriotism

By Nicholas S. Caballero, Ph.D, et.al.
Reference