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Full Idea
While Liberal Nationalists push liberalism in a particularist and communitarian direction, Constitutional Patriots emphasise its universalistic and cosmopolitan aspects.
Gist of Idea
Liberal Nationalism is more communitarian, and Constitutional Patriotism more cosmopolitan
Source
Andrew Shorten (Contemporary Political Theory [2016], 02)
Book Ref
Shorten,Andrew: 'Contemporary Political Theory' [Palgrave 2016], p.28
A Reaction
So many attractive qualities to choose from! A tolerant community ought to be cosmopolitan. Being universalistic should not entail a neglect of the particular. Etc.
Related Ideas
Idea 21118 Constitutional Patriotism unites around political values (rather than national identity) [Shorten]
Idea 21122 Liberal Nationalism says welfare states and democracy needed a shared sense of nationality [Shorten]
| 23273 | In a good state the goal of the citizens and of the whole state are united [Hegel] |
| 23042 | National spirit only exists in the individuals who embody it [Green,TH, by Muirhead] |
| 23194 | People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history [Nietzsche] |
| 23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
| 23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
| 22816 | Socialists reject nationality as a false source of identity [Miller,D] |
| 21123 | Liberal Nationalism is more communitarian, and Constitutional Patriotism more cosmopolitan [Shorten] |
| 23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
| 23130 | Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning [Gopnik] |
| 23131 | Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility [Gopnik] |
| 22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |