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|275| not be regarded after the manner of civil contracts; – they have no binding force as soon as one party sublates them – It is this eternal deceit172) of concluding treaties, binding oneself, and letting this obligation vanish again. – A universal league of peoples for perpetual peace173) would be the lordship of one people, or there would be only one people – their individuality obliterated – universal monarchy. – Morality has nothing to do in this relation; for it is the unfilled, individuality-less knowing of duty as such – insecurity, uncertainty – but security in the absolute certainty of oneself.
172) In the margin: labour for art and love one another; model people Jews – waters become swamps* * Alongside: empty dreaming perpetual peace, golden age
173) In the margin: war α) power against the actuality of the systems β) wisdom of the government – violation of the principles
The military estate and war are α) the actual sacrifice of the self, – the danger of death for the singular one; the intuiting of his abstract immediate negativity, just as he is likewise his immediately positive self; crime is a necessary moment in the concept of right and of law that holds force; – that each, as this singular one, makes himself into absolute power – beholds himself as absolutely free, – for himself and really against an other as the universal negativity; – in war it is granted to him – it is crime for the universal; the purpose the preservation of the whole – against the enemy who goes about destroying it – This externalization must have precisely this abstract form, be individuality-less, death be received and given coldly, not through the stationary battle where the singular one fixes his opponent in the eye and kills him in immediate hatred – but death is given and received emptily.174)
174) In the margin: impersonally out of the powder smoke –
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