Here’s the November forum of “Ethical Issues in Our Times”. 

“Patriotism: a virtue or a curse?”

Samuel Johnson famously called patriotism “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” While Nathan Hale famously is reported to have exclaimed “I only regret I have but one life to give for my country.” Quite recently, political analyst Ruy Teixeira has criticized Democrats for yielding the political terrain on patriotism to the Republicans by suggesting that the political left has shown more interest in focusing on America’s racial history that on its contribution to international human rights and domestic social improvement. Do you think that people’s group identity as a nationality, a religion, or a race, tends to enhance or to detract from human well being? How do you feel about the groups to which you belong?  

Join us in discussing this pressing social issue, in a discussion led by Dr. David Sprintzen, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University

This is the November installment of “Ethical Issues in OurTimes”: a product of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. 

Thursday, November 3rd, from 7-9pm on zoom at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/896985586