TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pavković, Aleksandar
PY  - 2007
UR  - http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0353-57380732127P
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/693
AB  - Cosmopolitan liberals would be ready to fight – and to kill and be
killed – for the sake of restoring international justice or for the abolition of profoundly
unjust political institutions. Patriots are ready to do the same for their own
country. Sometimes the cosmopolitan liberals and patriots would fight on the same
side and sometimes on the opposite sides of the conflict. Thus the former would join
the latter in the defense of Serbia against Austria-Hungary (in 1914) but would oppose
the white Southerner patriots in the American CivilWar (in 1861). In this paper
I argue that fighting and killing for one’s country is, in both of those cases, different
from the defense of one’s own life and the lives of those who cannot defend themselves.
Killing for one’s country is killing in order to fulfill a particular political preference.
The same is the case with fighting for the abolition of a profoundly unjust political
institution. It is not amoral or immoral to refuse to kill for any one of these two
political preferences because there is no reason to believe that either political preference
trumps our moral constraints against killing.
PB  - Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
T2  - Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
T1  - Can patriotism justify killing in defense of one’s country?
SP  - 127
EP  - 139
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_693
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Pavković, Aleksandar",
year = "2007",
abstract = "Cosmopolitan liberals would be ready to fight – and to kill and be
killed – for the sake of restoring international justice or for the abolition of profoundly
unjust political institutions. Patriots are ready to do the same for their own
country. Sometimes the cosmopolitan liberals and patriots would fight on the same
side and sometimes on the opposite sides of the conflict. Thus the former would join
the latter in the defense of Serbia against Austria-Hungary (in 1914) but would oppose
the white Southerner patriots in the American CivilWar (in 1861). In this paper
I argue that fighting and killing for one’s country is, in both of those cases, different
from the defense of one’s own life and the lives of those who cannot defend themselves.
Killing for one’s country is killing in order to fulfill a particular political preference.
The same is the case with fighting for the abolition of a profoundly unjust political
institution. It is not amoral or immoral to refuse to kill for any one of these two
political preferences because there is no reason to believe that either political preference
trumps our moral constraints against killing.",
publisher = "Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju",
journal = "Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society",
title = "Can patriotism justify killing in defense of one’s country?",
pages = "127-139",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_693"
}

Pavković, A.. (2007). Can patriotism justify killing in defense of one’s country?. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 127-139.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_693

Pavković A. Can patriotism justify killing in defense of one’s country?. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2007;:127-139.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_693 .

Pavković, Aleksandar, "Can patriotism justify killing in defense of one’s country?" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society (2007):127-139,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_693 .