What is pagan ethos?

Answer 1

Since Paganism is an umbrella term for all nature based beliefs and practises, trying to categorise the beliefs of Pagans is impossible. The majority of Pagans have a deep felt connection to the earth and the natural cycle, and many will mark the passing seasons with traditional celebrations specific to their culture.

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If you are talking about Kaplan's "a pagan ethos": "Robert Kaplan suggested that only a "pagan ethos" can provide us with the kind of leadership capable of safely traversing the global disorder of the twenty-first century. Kaplan's "pagan ethos" has several interlocking parts. It is shaped by a tragic sense of life, one that recognizes the ubiquity, indeed inevitability, of conflict. It teaches a heroic concept of history: fate is not all, and wise statecraft can lead to better futures. It promotes a realistic appreciation of the boundaries of the possible. It celebrates patriotism as a virtue. And it is shaped by a grim determination to avoid "moralism," which Kaplan (following Machiavelli, the Chinese sage Sun-Tzu, and Max Weber) identifies with a morality of intentions, oblivious to the peril of unintended or unanticipated consequences. For Kaplan, exemplars of this "pagan ethos" in the past century include Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt."