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Who is Ernest Renan?
Ernest Renan (Joseph-Ernest Renan in full) was a French philosopher and a scholar and critic of religion. He was born in 1823 and passed away in 1893. In his obituary notes we can find that “He was educated for the priesthood, and proved to be a markable student, but the
Summary of “What is a nation?”
This will be a short summary of the article ‘What is a nation?’(qu’est-ce qu’une nation?, 1882). According to Ernest Renan, there was a problem with the definition of ‘nation”. Race, sovereignty, ethnographic, religious an linguistic groups were confused with the word ‘nation’. He ponders why Hollan…
Similarities in Renan’s article and Collingwood’s chapter on Hegel
It is argued that the philosophy of history is not a reflection on historical facts, but it is rather the concept of understanding the reasons why facts happened as they did (Collingwood 1994, 113). “The philosophical history will be a universal history of mankind and will exhibit progress from prim…