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Philosophy 2810F/G Lecture Notes - Public Culture, Moral Universalism, Consequentialism

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rubydinosaur559
18 Sep 2012
School
Western University
Department
Philosophy
Course
Philosophy 2810F/G
Professor
Jennifer Epp

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The argument for nationalism: who we identify with determines who we owe obligations to. So they have obligations arising out of nationality. Objection: the prior question should be "who should i identify with?" why is it right that. Conflicts? your national association is not necessarily voluntary - argument against cosmopoli- tanism - don"t have an argument for nationalism: we should let the obligations of our group acknowledges influence the obligations we personally acknowledge. Nationals say that they have special obligations to each other, therefore i should too. If there aren"t any national obligations then state obligations will be minimal (that would be bad so we should accept special obligations to fellow nationals?) Objection: this is not an argument for obligations from nationality unless its results is absurd (and it isn"t) only works if the benefits of nationalism outweigh the harms.

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