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The Vanity of Temporal Things:
Fiala, Andrew
Fiala, Andrew
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Hegel thought that war shows us the larger perspective in which morality and all other temporal things find their higher meaning. In his early lectures on "Natural Right and Political Science," Hegel maintains that war "shows the nothingness of particularity."[2] War reminds us that particular goods such as individuality and even morality are limited goods that must be understood from within a larger context. This idea is connected to Hegel's larger systematic project which aims to show us progressively more complex wholes in which finite goods find their meaning. My aim in the present paper is to locate Hegel's theory of war both within just war thinking and within the context of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought about war. While Hegel accurately describes war as a condition that shows us the vanity of temporal things, the danger of Hegel's account is the corrosive effect that this has on attempts to defend moral limits on warfare.
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2006
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