TY - JOUR AU - Scavenius, Theresa PY - 2010/05/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Liberal nationalisme og politisk teori JF - Politik JA - Politik VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Tema DO - 10.7146/politik.v13i2.27448 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/politik/article/view/27448 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 76"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Politically and morally, liberal nationalism is a controversial political theory. Modern political theory tends to argue in favour of a liberal-egalitarian, multi-cultural or cosmopolitan theory. Distinguishing himself from mainstream political theory, David Miller claims the necessity of integrating a national-theoretical argument </span>into political theory. In this paper, I critically examine Miller’s argument. First, I distinguish between a strong and a weak version of the idea that nationality and national fellowship are constitutive of individual identity. Secondly, I discuss Miller’s argument for the moral relevance of national obligations. It is shown that the national aspect of obligations is arbitrarily chosen and does not vindicate a moral relevance of nationality. Finally, the argument for national responsibility is taken into consideration. National responsibility is an innovative idea within modern political theory, i.e. theories of collective responsibility. e strength of the argument of national responsibility is dependent on the assumption that national fellowship is a morally relevant entity. An assumption, however, that is insu ciently justi ed. </p></div></div></div> ER -