Philosophy War

Excerpt from Philosophy War
Is the rapprochement of these two words, philosophy and war, a legitimate one? Do not war and philosophy belong to two entirely different worlds? Should we not regard as artificial and incongruous all attempts to find any relation between the manifestations of force and the serene untrammelled speculations of the spirit?
Assuredly, this is not the point of view of the Germans. The official representatives of German science and art have insisted on declaring before the whole of the civilized world that the present war was entered upon and has been waged by Germany in full conformity with the principles of such men as Kant and Goethe, whilst their generals state that the German officer is nothing else than the visible representative, the incarnation, of the categorical imperative.
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