nationalism

Question 1

What is Herder’s view on Human Nature?

Answer 1

People see their own identity in terms of the collective identity of a cultural group with common language and history

Question 2

What is Herder’s view on The State?

Answer 2

States can only be rightfully based upon the collective identity of a people with common cultural and linguistic heritage.

Question 3

What is Herder’s view on Society?

Answer 3

Society is a cultural concept. It is based on a shared sense of culture and national heritage.

Question 4

What is Herder’s view on The Economy?

Answer 4

Herder made no special relationship between nation and economy.

Question 5

What is Rousseau’s view on Human nature?

Answer 5

People are rational beings who desire their own freedom.

Question 6

What is Rousseau’s view on The state?

Answer 6

The basis of any legitimate state has to be the nation. The nation is the vehicle for self-determination

Question 7

What is Rousseau’s view on Society?

Answer 7

Political society must be based on national self-determination.

Question 8

What is Rousseau’s view on The Economy?

Answer 8

Saw no particular relationship between nationalism and economic structures.

Question 9

What is Mazzini’s view on Human Nature?

Answer 9

People have a romantic vision of their origins. They seek liberty, but it is contained in the liberty of the people to which they belong.

Question 10

What is Mazzini’s view on The State?

Answer 10

the state is a romantic ideal, the ultimate expression of the unity of a people

Question 11

What is Mazzini’s view on Society?

Answer 11

Society must allow personal freedom to flourish. individuals can be free only if a whole society is also free.

Question 12

What is Mazzini’s view on The Economy?

Answer 12

Economic freedom is a natural result of general freedom enjoyed by nations and their people.

Question 13

What is Maurras’ view on Human Nature?

Answer 13

Ethnic identity is a key aspect of our consciousness.

Question 14

What is Maurras’ view on The state?

Answer 14

various states do not have equal status. Some peoples and states are superior to others.

Question 15

What is Maurras’ view on Society?

Answer 15

Society is based on a shared sense of ethnicity. Some societies are superior forms of civilisation to others.

Question 16

What is Maurras’ view on The economy?

Answer 16

The superior culture of one nation naturally leads to the economic dominance of that nation over weaker nations.

Question 17

What is Garvey’s view on Human Nature?

Answer 17

All people are part of either a white race or a black race. Though the white race has dominated the black race, the latter can claim a superior history and culture

Question 18

What is Garvey’s view on The state?

Answer 18

States are largely artificial constructs, the products of white supremacy. The only meaningful state should be the united black peoples of the world.

Question 19

What is Garvey’s view on Society?

Answer 19

Black society will be superior to white society once the colonial oppression of black people is defeated.

Question 20

What is Garvey’s view on The Economy?

Answer 20

Garvey opposed both international capitalism, which leads to imperialism, and communism, which leads to dictatorship. Black peoples should set up their own form of capitalism for their own benefit.

Question 21

What did Mazzini say a country was?

Answer 21

‘a country is… the sense of fellowship which binds together the sons of that territory’.

Question 22

What did Rousseau write?

Answer 22

Rousseau wrote in ‘considerations on the government in Poland’ that in claiming its freedom Poland would also create a new kind of state, held together by patriotism, reinforced by education and establishing a democratic form of representative government.