Hegel held modern war removes personal hatred from enmity

Evidence

“Modern wars,” Hegel writes, “are therefore humanely waged, and person is not set over against person in hatred. At most, personal enmities appear in the vanguard, but in the main body of the army hostility is something vague and gives place to each side’s respect for the duty of the other.” Here, the enemy is human, and though he may not be a moral person, the enemy is due respect. Yet there remains some obscurity as to what this respect entails if the enemy is not personal. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 404

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the enemy as a nonpersonal, institutional adversary due respect rather than personal hatred.
• XREF: Connects to Carl Schmitt’s enemy/friend distinction and modern just-war theory in international relations.