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Recent attempts to distinguish a normatively acceptable civic nationalism from an irrationally tainted ethnic nationalism have failed to take seriously the implications of the transition from the city as the immediate spatial unit of the patria to the more abstract national state that replaced it. The nation-state has required a mythologizing naturalism to legitimate it, thus blurring the civic-ethnic distinction. The urban political experience of the patria is lost; cosmopolitan intellectuals should resist the temptation to recover it in the nation, recognizing civic nationalism for the oxymoron it is. Adapted from the source document.

Argues that the postulate of universal scarcity was invented out of a set of propositions and observations put forward by 2 theorists of 'classical liberalism': Adam Smith and David Hume. Contends that liberal theory is founded on this both in its description of modern society and in its legitimation of institutions central to it, although it has been employed in 2 distinct forms. Looks at developments and arguments. (JLN)