nationalism Flashcards
What is Herder’s view on Human Nature?
People see their own identity in terms of the collective identity of a cultural group with common language and history
What is Herder’s view on The State?
States can only be rightfully based upon the collective identity of a people with common cultural and linguistic heritage.
What is Herder’s view on Society?
Society is a cultural concept. It is based on a shared sense of culture and national heritage.
What is Herder’s view on The Economy?
Herder made no special relationship between nation and economy.
What is Rousseau’s view on Human nature?
People are rational beings who desire their own freedom.
What is Rousseau’s view on The state?
The basis of any legitimate state has to be the nation. The nation is the vehicle for self-determination
What is Rousseau’s view on Society?
Political society must be based on national self-determination.
What is Rousseau’s view on The Economy?
Saw no particular relationship between nationalism and economic structures.
What is Mazzini’s view on Human Nature?
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.
What is Mazzini’s view on The State?
the state is a romantic ideal, the ultimate expression of the unity of a people
What is Mazzini’s view on Society?
Society must allow personal freedom to flourish. individuals can be free only if a whole society is also free.
What is Mazzini’s view on The Economy?
Economic freedom is a natural result of general freedom enjoyed by nations and their people.
What is Maurras’ view on Human Nature?
Ethnic identity is a key aspect of our consciousness.
What is Maurras’ view on The state?
various states do not have equal status. Some peoples and states are superior to others.
What is Maurras’ view on Society?
Society is based on a shared sense of ethnicity. Some societies are superior forms of civilisation to others.
What is Maurras’ view on The economy?
The superior culture of one nation naturally leads to the economic dominance of that nation over weaker nations.
What is Garvey’s view on Human Nature?
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
What is Garvey’s view on The state?
States are largely artificial constructs, the products of white supremacy. The only meaningful state should be the united black peoples of the world.
What is Garvey’s view on Society?
Black society will be superior to white society once the colonial oppression of black people is defeated.
What is Garvey’s view on The Economy?
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.
What did Mazzini say a country was?
‘a country is… the sense of fellowship which binds together the sons of that territory’.
What did Rousseau write?
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.
