Taking Liberal Nationalism Seriously : A Debate with Tamir

• Main Authors: Sheu, Chau-jin, 許巧靜
• Other Authors: Jing, Yi-Huah
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43558843679084973530

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 97 === This dissertation focuses on Yuli(Yael) Tamir’s liberal nationalism. It attempts to answer two research questions: First, whether her theory combines liberalism and nationalism successfully? Second, what does it contribute to current national problems? Main issues in question include: (a) “the idea of the person” as the foundation of general political philosophy, (b) the concept of “nation” as the core value of all types of nationalism, (c) the first claim of Tamir’s liberal nationalism: preferring members to nonmembers and treating members fairly, and (d) the second claim of Tamir’s liberal nationalism: national rights are both individual and universal rights. Through a series of arguments, this research tries to demonstrate that despite offering some significant views aiming at combining liberalism and nationalism which are worth further discussing and helpful to tone down conflicts among nations, several serious inconsistencies in Tamir’s theory with her neglecting some basic claims of both liberalism and nationalism make her liberal nationalism potentially damage to nationalism and leave room for authoritarianism which liberals hate.