Loyalty to ones group is not necessarily a virtue, as the horrors of Nazi Germany amply demonstrated. On the contrary, a commitment to group loyaltya standing order to abandon ones principles for the sake of the groupis irrational whether one subscribes to moral absolutism or to moral relativism.
A Critique of Group Loyalty
By Laurie L. Calhoun
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article
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the Summer 1998 issue of The Independent Review.
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Winter 2010/11 | Political Philosophers on War: Arguments inside the Just War Box | |
Winter 2005/06 | Michael Walzer on Just War Theorys Critical Edge: More Like a Spoon Than a Knife | |
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