Didn Hegel glorify War?
No. Nowhere in Hegel’s philosophy can we trace a glorification of war as such. Hegel deals with war as an undeniable “fact” that characterise human history and reality; instead of simply dismissing this phenomenon as “evil”, he tries to explain it and to incorporate it in his conception of the “universal”. The major feature of Hegel’s philosophy in general is movement. War, for all its tragical consequences and its sufferences (and Hegel describes them without any kind of romantic pathos or exaltation, but just for how terrible they are), brings movement to history and sometimes allows the progress in the consciousness of freedom. Let’s take the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, for instance: instead of simply condemning these events as violent expression of human rage, Hegel locates them in their own context, acknowledges the role violence has played in these events and the fact that without violence the principles of the French Revolution wouldn’t have spread. Let’s not forg
