№ 6 - 1999
Rosales J.M.
The Education of Civic Identity: On the Relations between Nationalism and Patriotism

Professor of moral and political philosophy (Malaga University, Spain) retraces, both in the historical aspect and in the modern perspective, the republican tradition (civic identity as the result of a constitutional project) and the nationalist approach (love for the nation as community of origin, with common destiny). The whole process of the education of civic identity, as demonstrated in the article, is conditioned by both rapprochement and differentiation of the characteristics of republican patriotism and of nationalism. The author also dwells on new implications of the collision of the two tendencies, to point to aptness of the civic aspect of republicanism for treatment in terms of cosmopolitanism. As he develops his argumentation he touches upon such themes as: political culture and ethnic interpretation of politics; relation of nationalism and of constitutionalism with civil society; democratic transit and consolidated democracy.