WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As per Ernst Renan, the culmination of a long past of devotion, sacrifice and endeavors is a nation. According to Ernst Renan, the base of a national idea is to have social capital, glory, great men, and heroic past. As per Ernst Renan if anyone has the right to be consulted in a nation, it is the inhabitants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Renan wrote “What is a Nation” in order to save liberalism, classically understood, from the rise of statism as a result of the French Revolution of 1789. Ludwig von Mises called this essay: “the last word spoken by the older Western liberalism on the problems of state and nation."

Detailed explanation-3: -The philosophes (French for ‘philosophers’) were writers, intellectuals and scientists who shaped the French Enlightenment during the 18th century. The best known philosophes were Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot.

Detailed explanation-4: -A nation is a territory where all the people are led by the same government. The word “nation” can also refer to a group of people who share a history, traditions, culture and, often, language-even if the group does not have a country of its own.