A/T Violence Not Inevitable

A/T Violence Not Inevitable

[James, Terrible Love of War, pg. 2]

War is also psychological task because philosophy and theology, the fields supposed to do the heavy thinking for our species, have neglected war's overriding importance. "War is the father of all" said Heraclitus at the beginning of Western thought, which Emmanuel Levinas restates in recent Western thought as "being reveals itself a war". If war is a primordial component of being, then war fathers the very structure of existence and out thinking about is: our ideas of the universe, of religion, of ethics; war determines the thought patters of Aristotle's logic of opposites, Kant's antinomies, Darwin's natural selection, Marx's struggle of classes, and even Freud's repression of the id by the ego and superego. We think in warlike terms, feel ourselves at war with ourselves, and unknowingly believe predation territorial defense, conquest, and the interminable battle of opposing forces are ground rules of existence.