The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of men. The jus belli contains such a disposition. It implies a double possibility: the right to demand from its own members the readiness to die and unhesitatingly to kill enemies.


The Concept of the Political (1927)


The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of...

The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of...

The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of...

The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of...