Revenge of the Philosophical Mole: Another Response to David Miller on Nationality
作者:
CHARLES JONES,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 73-86
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1996.tb00151.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTDavid Miller has written extensively on the ethical value of the nation. A satisfactory response to Miller's ideas on nationalism requires an assessment of the whole range of his writings on the subject. After stating the outlines of Miller's conception of ‘nationality’, I evaluate the most important arguments for and against any attribution of ethical importance to the nation. Finally, I assess Miller's commitment to conational ethical priority in the context of duties of justributive justice. My main conclusions are as follows. (i) Miller's conservative strategy of justification is unacceptable, and a critical strategy suggests several plausible arguments for valuing national attachments. These arguments are not conclusive, however, (ii) In so far as Miller's position depends on real historical connections between persons, it is susceptible to the objection from historical myth. (iii) Miller offers an unexpected and ultimately unsuccessful response to the claim that national sentiments are partial and hence biased, (iv) Miller provides no good reason to believe that the duties of distributive justice are owed in the first instance to conation
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