Why are Masons Patriots?
by Consuegra Arquiciega
This essay, at once philosophical, anthropological, and profoundly humanistic, explores the complex relationship between Freemasonry and patriotism from a critical yet constructive perspective. Starting with the contrast between collective suffering and its ritualization within the Masonic framework, Consuegra Arquiciega argues that the lodge is not merely a symbolic refuge but an active school of compassion, where mourning becomes ethics and ritual transforms society.
The text, with erudition and sensitivity, navigates the historical paradoxes of the institution: its universalist discourse in contrast to its past exclusions; its ideal fraternity against social and gender barriers; its cosmopolitanism against the rise of modern nationalisms. With the conceptual support of authors such as Schopenhauer, Kant, Clifford Geertz, and L憝i-Strauss, the author traces a moral genealogy of the Mason as a subject who transcends borders without negating them, who loves his homeland not for its ethnic myths, but for its just institutions.
In times of dehumanizing globalization and identity reactions, the essay posits that true Masonic patriotism is not tribal or exclusionary but enlightened: it does not deny homelands but subordinates them to a universal ethic. In the words of Jos?Mart? "Homeland is humanity."
The work closes with a fervent invitation to good brothers to, without rest or pause, return to the path of the stone and actively work for human dignity. For, as Schopenhauer reminds us and the author reiterates, "compassion is the foundation of all morality," and Freemasonry, when faithful to its myth, is that compassion made into ritual, fraternity, and action.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
