Etiket: The Tension Between Hegel’s Understanding of War and Tolstoy’s Critique of War

In modern thought, war has been conceptualized sometimes as a necessary instrument of historical progress, and sometimes as the clearest manifestation of humanity’s moral bankruptcy. This contrast emerges as a distinct philosophical tension between G. W. F. Hegel and Lev Tolstoy. While Hegel positions war as a necessary moment in