On the Nature of War: War as Contest
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Abstract
One of the most important questions in the philosophy of war is to uncover the nature of war by answering the question of ’What is war?’. Proposed answers consist of the broad and the narrow definitions of war. While according to the former war is the conflict of opposites between cosmic, transcendental, or biological entities, including humans, the narrow definition focuses to conflicts of humans. Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) picked the latter option when he defined war as duel on a large scale in chapter 1 of the First Book of his book On War. This article concerns the history of this approach to war from the antiquity to the 20th century.
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