Liberal Nationalism by Tamir Yael;

Author:Tamir, Yael; [Tamir, Yael;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400820849
Publisher: Princeton UP
Published: 2022-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

Five The Magic Pronoun “My”

Recall the face of the poorest and the most helpless man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him, will he be able to gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to ‘swaraj’ or self-rule for the hungry and spiritually starved millions of our countrymen? Then you will find your doubts and yourself melting away. —Gandhi

The reputation of nationalicsm has been most notorious in the ethical sphere. Nationalism has been blamed for promoting intolerance, communal egoism, arrogant patriotism, racist tyranny, and genocide. Dunn argues that nationalism is the

starkest political shame of the twentieth century, the deepest, most intractable and yet most unanticipated blot on the political history of the world since the year 1900. . . . Nationalism does violate so directly the official conceptual categories of modern ethics, the universalist heritage of a natural law conceived either in terms of Christianity or of secular rationalism.1

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