What is signified by our discomfort with patriotism?
A comment on Pieper on piety and politics
Reading Josef Pieper’s The Four Cardinal Virtues, I was (pleasantly) surprised by his brief, yet suggestive, comments on patriotism. They occur in a chapter on “The Limits of Justice.”1 Pieper, good Thomist that he is, is commenting on the Angelic Doctor’s treatment of religio and pietas in connection to the cardinal virtue of justice. Justice requires g…
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