@ARTICLE{Brzechczyn_Krzysztof_Patriotism_2020, author={Brzechczyn, Krzysztof}, number={No 1}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={51-62}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct Roger Scruton’s views on patriotism and the attitudes of nationalism and oikophobia that endanger proper love of homeland. According to Scruton, patriotism is identical with loyalty to the people who inhabited a certain territory and share common culture, customs and history. The feeling of national loyalty so understood is peaceful by its nature and stabilizes the democratic system. Besides patriotism, Scruton distinguishes two attitudes, of worship of one’s nation and of hostility towards it. The first attitude may transform into nationalism, and then deifies nation and leads to wars and conflicts in history. Unlike the former, the attitude of hostility towards own nation (oikophobia) justifies development of transnational institutions that limited sovereignty of the democratic nation-states and – indirectly – undermine the sovereignty of one’s people. In the final part of the paper I paraphrase the concepts of nation presupposed in the attitudes of patriotism, nationalism and oikophobia, as they are discussed in the theoretical apparatus used by Leszek Nowak in his deformative conception of culture.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Patriotism – nationalism – oikophobia in the thought of Roger Scruton}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116185/PDF/2020-01-PFIL-05-Brzechczyn.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2020.132970}, keywords={conservatism, nationalism, nation, oikophobia, patriotism, R. Scruton, national consciousness}, }