This essay examines the question of the moral justification of patriotism, given a Kantian view of morality as requiring an equal respect for every human being. The essay considers the background in Kant's moral theology for his cosmopolitanism. It then considers an extreme version of cosmopolitanism that denies a proper place for love of one's country, and it engages with a contemporary atheist cosmopolitan, Seyla Benhabib, suggesting that there are resources in Kant's moral theology to ground the hope that she expresses but does not succeed in grounding. Finally, it considers patriotism as a perfection of cosmopolitanism, in the same way that love of an individual can be a perfection of love of humanity. The essay suggests that defensible versions of cosmopolitanism put constraints on what kind of love of one's own country is morally permissible. But these constraints require the background in a Kantian moral theology.

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爱国主义与道德神学

鉴于康德式的道德观要求对每个人的平等尊重，本文探讨了爱国主义的道德辩护问题。本文考虑了康德的世界主义的道德神学背景。然后，它考虑了世界主义的一种极端形式，即否认了一个爱国的适当场所，并且与当代无神论世界主义者塞拉·本哈比卜（Seyla Benhabib）交往，这表明康德的道德神学中有资源可以使她希望表达但不表达希望。成功接地。最后，它把爱国主义视为世界主义的完美，就像对个人的爱可以是对人类的完美一样。这篇文章表明，世界主义的可辩驳的版本限制了对一个人的什么样的爱。本国在道德上是允许的。但是，这些限制条件需要康德道德神学的背景。