Concept
Nation state
Overview
A nation state, or nation-state, is a political entity in which the state (a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory) and the nation (a community based on a common identity) are congruent.
A nation, sometimes used in the sense of a common ethnicity, may include a diaspora or refugees who live outside the nation-state; some dispersed nations (such as the Roma nation, for example) do not have a state where that ethnicity predominates. In a more general sense, a nation-state is simply a large, politically sovereign country or administrative territory.
Historians and scholars of nationalism studies are divided over whether nations preceded nation-states or if nation-states produced nationalism, but are agreed that the nineteenth century, after the age of revolutions, was a key period for the rise of nation states.
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On the other hand, as no society is ever in complete equilibrium, this harmony will never be perfect and may often be widely departed from. In what is called a single community, if it reach a considerable bulk, there are (in other words) often a number of minor societies, more or less thwarting and modifying each other; and different observers, who belong in the main to one or other of these subordinate groups, may…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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And further than this the life of the State in its organic entirety, as a related whole of monarch, government, courts of justice, military control, and general grouping of all the various societies which compose it, no less than the obligations and duties which such arrangements presuppose, the aims and satisfaction to which they are directed, the entire scope of its civic and commercial activities already referred…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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Because the battle is long and arduous all general theory is gradually forgotten; in the end, nothing remains but self-assertion, and when the oppressed win freedom they are as oppressive as their former masters. This is seen most crudely in the case of what is called nationalism. Nationalism, in theory, is the doctrine that men, by their sympathies and traditions, form natural groups, called “nations,” each of…
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
States what Nation state is.
Philosophers who discussed Nation state
- Roger Scruton
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The Ego and Its Own
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ernest Renan
- Étienne Balibar
- Michael Walzer
- Johannes Althusius
Related ideas
- Ethnicity
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Samuel P. Huntington
- French language
- Antisemitism
- Fascism
- French Revolution
- Francis Fukuyama
- Free market
- Germany
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- German Empire
- Polis
- Holy See
- Human rights
- City-state
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
- Italy
- India
- National language
- Imperialism
Opposing perspectives
- Racism
- Constitution of the United States
- Anarcho-syndicalism
- History of political thought
- Capital punishment
Place in the tradition
Part of Conservatism.