who was ernest renan? what was his idea of nation state?
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Ernest Renan defines a nation as an entity based on acts of the free will of individuals forming a collective identity: "A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things, which in truth are
but one, constitute this soul or spiritual principle. One lies in the past, one in the present. One
is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present-day consent.
the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage that one has received
in an undivided form.
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Ernst Renan was a French philosopher and attributes of a nation are according to him as follows— (i) A nation is not formed by a common language, race, religion or territory. (ii)To form a nation, social capital, common glories and deeds of the past and common will are necessary.