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Nationalism and Development: Can There Be a Decent Patriotism? |
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Martha C. Nussbaum |
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The goal of worldwide human development has typically been understood to require a diminution in nation-directed emotion. I argue that the love of one’s own nation can be a valuable support for a nation’s projects of redistribution and its attempts to right historic wrongs—but only if patriotism is reconceived in connection with moral norms. I then attempt that reconceptualization, drawing on examples from Indian and American history.
The goal of worldwide human development has typically been understood to require a diminution in nation-directed emotion. I argue that the love of one’s own nation can be a valuable support for a nation’s projects of redistribution and its attempts to right historic wrongs—but only if patriotism is reconceived in connection with moral norms. I then attempt that reconceptualization, drawing on examples from Indian and American history. |
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