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What is Herder’s view on Human Nature?

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

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What is Herder’s view on The State?

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

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What is Herder’s view on Society?

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

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What is Herder’s view on The Economy?

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Herder made no special relationship between nation and economy.

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What is Rousseau’s view on Human nature?

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People are rational beings who desire their own freedom.

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What is Rousseau’s view on The state?

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

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What is Rousseau’s view on Society?

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Political society must be based on national self-determination.

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What is Rousseau’s view on The Economy?

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Saw no particular relationship between nationalism and economic structures.

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What is Mazzini’s view on Human Nature?

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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.

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What is Mazzini’s view on The State?

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

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What is Mazzini’s view on Society?

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

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What is Mazzini’s view on The Economy?

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

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What is Maurras’ view on Human Nature?

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Ethnic identity is a key aspect of our consciousness.

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What is Maurras’ view on The state?

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

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What is Maurras’ view on Society?

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

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What is Maurras’ view on The economy?

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

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What is Garvey’s view on Human Nature?

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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

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What is Garvey’s view on The state?

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

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What is Garvey’s view on Society?

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

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What is Garvey’s view on The Economy?

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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.

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What did Mazzini say a country was?

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

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What did Rousseau write?

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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.