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SUMMARY:Does It Take Enemies to Make Friends? or\, What would Hegel say to
  Nehru? - Esben Hegnsholt Olsen
DTSTART:20090526T121500Z
DTEND:20090526T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Moritz Baumstark
DESCRIPTION:What is the social function of war and what happens to society
  when a nation refuses to recognize the dichotomies of strife? For the pur
 poses of this talk I will follow the Hegelian argument and use non-aligned
  India during the Cold War as the odd case. The German philosopher G.W.F. 
 Hegel understood war as preserving the ’ethical health’ of peoples in 
 the same way that ’the blowing of the winds preserves the sea from the f
 oulness which would be the result of prolonged calm’. According to Hegel
  it takes outer enemies to make inner friends. If this should indeed be th
 e case\, how are we to explain the behaviour of nations that do not buy in
 to the conflictual dichotomies of the international system\, such as India
  during the Cold War? When Nehru laid out the doctrine of non-alignment\, 
 resting upon the five principles of Panchseel\, how did this influence the
  ’ethical health’ of the Indian people\, and how can we best understan
 d the discord between Nehru’s doctrine and the Hegelian dialectics of wa
 r?
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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