ABSTRACT
As a virtue and an ideal, patriotism can be a subset of the comprehensive ideality of cosmopolitanism. Many libertarians regard the inculcation of patriotism as a risky operation, it creates subjectivities whose immersion in their community will engender an inability or failure to promote their self-regarding goals. Problem arises when cosmopolitanism and patriotism can coexist, authorized by justice, concerns the theorization of justice itself. Justice should function as a corrective or a touchstone that raises the border between the basic dimensions of patriotism and their undesirable flip sides. As there is no unifying metadiscourse of justice, issue will be settled by pointing to a proper account, placing cosmopolitanism and patriotism side by side where justice requires some elaboration of the latter's meaning. Overall, if a commitment to justice, simultaneously patriotic and cosmopolitan-could be cultivated, then the motivation to use the challenge of history in an expedient manner would be overcome or kept at bay.
