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Each war differs in its particularities. Yet each war is the same in that it enact the will and killing power of the state.
HEGEL: "The Nation-State is spirit in its actuality is therefore the absolute power on earth. The State is the Spirit of the People itself. The actual State is animated by this spirit. Against this Will, other national minds have no rights: that Nation dominates the World. From G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Law, 331.
SEE: HEGEL AND TOTALITARIANISM: The Cult of State Power
"All the worth which the human being possesses--all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and The Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth."
PRIMACY OF THE STATE VS. THE INDIVIDUAL: "In civilized nations, true bravery consists in the readiness to give oneself wholly to the service of the State so that the individual counts but as one among many. Not personal valor alone is significant; the important aspect lies in self-subordination to the universal cause."
"The origin of a State involves imperious lordship on the one hand, instinctive submission on the other. Obedience - Lordly power, and the fear inspired by a ruler - in itself implies some degree of voluntary connection. It is not the isolated will of individuals that prevails; individual pretensions are relinquished, and the general will is the essential bond of political union."
Koenigsberg's Law of Sacrifice
Wars testify to the of the state. Death and memorials erected honoring those who have died articulate the killing power of the nation-state, which compels human beings to submit and if necessary to die. |
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