By tracing the theoretical genealogy of such ideas as reason, natural and historical rights, the individual, nation, and the state, Lubica Učn�k argues that we need to come to terms with the conceptual framework of the Enlightenment in order to understand the relationship between nationalism and liberalism.
The author claims that the foundation of our knowledge is embedded in the modern concept of the individual. She argues that there are two different models of individualism. One is predicated on the mechanistic universe of causation and defined by the idea of negative liberty; the other theorises the individual as relational and hence social. These two conceptions of the individual are tied to different concepts of rights. The idea of nation is likewise contained in the notion of the individual. Once again, there are two possible approaches.
Using the example of the splitting of Czecho-Slovakia, the concept of historical right theorised by the German Historical School of Recht is elaborated. After the First World War, the idea of natural right, as advanced by the Treaty of Versailles promised a sense of legality to all nations living in Central Eastern Europe. Now two concepts – natural right and historical right – provide a basis for the claim of each nation to its own state.
The complexity of the political situation in Europe after 1989 thus has to be interpreted differently.

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The Author: Born in Czechoslovakia, Lubica Učn�k worked as a TV producer in the Czechoslovak Television, Bratislava. She migrated to Australia in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia and currently holds the position of lecturer there.

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