POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Veal, Imperium, Wield
20 Dec 2012
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Two definitions of war that are influential and how we can. Karl van clausewitz: the art of war . The correlates of war project: attempt to unpack and determine the empirical conditions that define war, found in wp chapter 3 beginning. Does invoke a set of emotional responses: + - and intellectual. War is not always the bad thing: ancient athens, war was considered a displace of superiority. Their version of superman was hercules they idealized an individual that was a warrior, they associated something good with the idea of war: the romans idealized the idea of war as well. In latin, virtu vir has connatations of veal, steadfastness imperium= empire, justifying conquest. Romanticsasthethic writers who want to talk about the nature of struggle and how it can define our identities, or clarify our idea of artistic : social darwinism, we should pursue struggle, nietzsche the wield of power. Nazi the war serves to establish your identity.
