Intense political passion must be convertible into moral duty

Evidence

But for Croce’s conception to be valid, it would have to be possible to apply it also to war, and hence to explain the fact of standing armies, military academies, officer corps. War in progress too is “passion”, the most intense and febrile of all passions; it is a moment of political life; it is the continuation in other forms of a given policy. It is necessary therefore to explain how passion can become moral “duty”—duty in terms not of political morality but of ethics. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 633

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Critique that begins in politics must end in foundational moral principles; Passions and affects, not rationality, secure allegiance to democratic values — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 433; Moral and political engagement can drain the creative source that justified it — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 493 (+11 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Critique that begins in politics must end in foundational moral principles; Passions and affects, not rationality, secure allegiance to democratic values — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 433; Moral and political engagement can drain the creative source that justified it — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 493 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral and political engagement can drain the creative source that justified it #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 493
• Loyalty to a charismatic leader can override an accomplice’s own moral self-censure #complicates (0.74) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 232