Manifiesto nacionalista (o hasta separatista, si me apuran)

Abstract

The twofold thesis of this paper is that nationalism, as a program devoted to the defense and development of nations, is a well-founded doctrine, both on an ontologico-epistemological and on an axiological level. The ontologicoepistemological part of the thesis is that nations are real empirical entities, although they are not directly but rather theoretically identifiable —in quite the same way as so many other theoretical entities of the most advanced sciences. Nations are special types of ethnical groups; a “mini-theory” is laid out here settling the “minimal axioms” that determine those entities. The axiological thesis is that it is something good that the universe (especially in the sociocultural domain) consists of as great a variety as possible of things; consequently, an ethico-political program like nationalism, which propounds the preservation and development of nations, should be valued positively.