THREE WARS IN HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY
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In the article, I show that Hegel’s understanding of war as a condition of state sovereignty contains several contradictions that make modern wars unviable for the sustainment of political unity. In the first place, I offer an explanation of Hegel’s conception of war as a necessity of politics, with attention to his concept of “courage”, which figures for Hegel as an alternative to the social contract theory. In the next step, I argue that this conception of courage cannot fulfil all of the requirements in Hegel’s political philosophy that would offer a guarantee of state sovereignty. I do this through a typology of wars contained in Hegel’s work — colonial, limited, and total war — demonstrating that none of these wars are capable of securing political unity in modernity. Finally, I conclude that modern wars have a sense only within Hegel’s world-history, but not in his political philosophy.
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