Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and (27/30)


Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis (27/30)

Mahmoud Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi 



A Philosophical Anarchological Elucidation of Homeland, Borders, and Identity in the Existential Perspective of Anarchic and Free Life

  • Homeland as an Ethical Action, Not a Geography of Belonging
  • Rethinking Homeland as Responsibility, Not Heritage

In philosophical anarchology, homeland is no longer merely a geography, a border, or a point on the map where one is born. Rather, it becomes a form of ethical action and conscious choice. Homeland in this sense is not a predetermined or imposed reality, but the outcome of human responsibility—towards oneself and toward the other. Human beings do not belong to the homeland; rather, it is homeland that must belong to the dignity of human beings.

The geography of birth, despite its psychological and social roles, cannot alone legitimize identity—unless it is accompanied by the possibility of ethical life, freedom of thought, and respect for difference. Homeland only holds value when it provides a space for human flourishing, free participation, and dignity-centered living. Otherwise, “homeland” becomes merely another name for a closed, domination-driven structure that sacrifices freedom in the name of belonging.

From this perspective, homeland is not an inherited reality but a re-creatable field—a domain in which homeland is made, imbued with meaning, or ethically left behind through moral choices. Wherever homeland becomes a barrier to freedom, a site of enforced silence or exclusion of the other, the moment arises for rethinking—and if necessary, ethical departure from—it.

Thus, in this view, homeland is not a geography of attachment but an ethical act: a commitment to constructing a space where human beings can live without domination, in freedom, and with the dignity of self and others preserved.

Philosophical Anarchopathology of Patriotoxication

Disorder in Ethical Behavior, Philosophical Reasoning, and the Perception of Human Dignity

Extreme patriotism—what this text names patriotoxication or homelandosis—within the framework of philosophical anarchopathology is not simply a natural affection for one’s birthplace. It is rather a symptom of a deeper disorder: ethical, epistemological, and psychological. Homeland becomes a sacred and ideological idol, no longer a space for ethical life, but a mechanism for legitimizing violence, exclusion of the other, and sacrifice of freedom.

From a philosophical anarchological view, patriotoxication reflects three fundamental pathologies:

  1. Damaged Ethical Consciousness:
    A sense of belonging to homeland merges with blind loyalty, fanaticism, and the glorification of “sacred defense,” recognizing human dignity only for those deemed “insiders.” The “other” is reduced to a threat, traitor, or enemy, and violence against them is framed as virtue.
  2. Distorted Philosophical Rationality:
    Extreme patriotism suppresses philosophical inquiry into the essence of homeland. Concepts such as homeland, nation, borders, and identity are placed beyond question, wrapped in sanctity. In this way, critical philosophy is replaced by an ideology that guards the status quo.
  3. Inability to Grasp a Dignity-Based Cosmopolitanism:
    Patriotoxicated individuals are cut off from experiencing the world as an ethical and human home. They think only within national borders, falling into dogmatism, isolation, and avoidance of dialogue with difference.

At its deepest level, this philosophical/political disorder is a subconscious fear of freedom—a fear of rootlessness, of self-redefinition, of openness to the other. Extreme patriotism thus serves as a psychological refuge for minds anxious in the face of modern moral instability. By mythologizing homeland, they cling to false security.

Philosophical anarchopathology invites us to rethink homeland, belonging, borders, and identity—not from the standpoint of loyalty, but from the perspective of dignity; not from fear, but from the horizon of freedom.


Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, Mahmoud. (2025). Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Homelandosis (27/30): From Homelandosis as a Prison to Cosmopolitanism—The Horizon of Freedom in Anarchic Living.

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