"We say therefore War belongs not to the province of Arts and Sciences, but to the province of social life. It is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others" (Clausewitz 202).
"War is part of the intercourse of the human race" (Clausewitz 202). From my experience, this idea holds true. War is an act of violence, all humans are eventually going to end up violent. Ex.- In a fist fight there will be a point in that fight where the fighter's will no longer be cognizant of what they are doing. In other words they will stop all reasoning and just act in a violent way (using the nature of "the beast" which Machiavelli says that princes must have). When one just acts in a violent way, isn't that the same as saying that one was acting in their true self. Reasoning is used for the strategy and tactics or deception (one could act one way, but be, in one's true self, another). War is a part of human nature; war is not composed from reasoning (Clausewitz 203).
"The essential difference consists in this, that War is no activity of the will, which exerts itself upon inanimate matter like the mechanical Arts..." (Clausewitz 203).
I really have no questions for this passage. It was very clear and supported my 'theory' that war is human nature and not that of cognizant reasoning.
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