UDC 355.01 Egorov A.G., cand. of PHILOSOPHY OF WAR philosophical sciences, senior lecturer (ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING OF WAR DONE FROM Petersburg State THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CONCEPT OF BINER) Transport University, The given article contains brief ontological analysis of war, - which is a well-known social and Russia historical phenomenon. Peculiarity of this work is connected with the fact that the given research into Conference participant, war was conducted from the point of view of the conception of biner developed by the author since 2005. National championship in The major reasons which cause wars and their consequences are also considered in this article. scientifi c analytics Keywords: war, biner, analysis. longside with other important and and Plato, noted the universal nature the manifestation of negativity and con- Aessential issues, earlier or later ev- of war. For example, Heraclitus wrote: tradictoriness of being. Negativity and ery person has to comprehend his/her at- “War is the father and tsar of every- contradictoriness are the consequences titude to such an inevitable aspect of hu- thing, it made some human beings of duality, or binarity of being. The world man existence as war. If it is not done in Gods and some human beings – people, can not be defi nite and concrete without time and at the necessary level, it means it made some people slaves and other duality. At the same time, duality invari- that in the world outlook and thus in the people free”. At the same time, in this ably leads to the collision of different as- whole life of the given person there will connection Plato said the following: pects of being with each other. In the nar- gape a huge breach which will lead to ad- “Everybody is in war against every- row sense war is a collision, or intensive ditional mistakes, sufferings, failures and body both in social and personal life, interaction between complex biosocial inability to understand the events which and everybody [is in war] with himself/ systems which are complex binary for- take place in reality. An educated and herself” [9]. Different states are in war mations. War is an outward manifesta- thinking person needs both to develop with other states, their constituent parts tion of the clash between oppositions, the both his personal attitude to the given are in struggle with each other; within result of violating the balance between war (as if he were to become its con- individual settlements there is conduct- oppositions when between them a strong temporary or even participant) and reach ed the war between local homes and inharmonious interaction, or imbalance the stage of understanding the role and families; within families and homes between the poles of a biner begins to meaning of war in the history of man- their members are in war against each take place on the base of their unity. In kind. That person who aspires to the phil- other; and, at last, every person wages other words, war is a manifestation of the osophical level of comprehending those war against himself/herself, although unity of the deteriorating something with things which take place around him/her everybody does it in different ways something else, although for its existence should develop his/her own essential and and with different consequences. So war requires its own, special unity. As a comprehensive understanding of the idea it is clear that in this context the word result, between the poles of imbalanced of war. However, realization of this un- “war” means not only martial actions biners there starts a hard, powerful, ir- derstanding can be done from the point but all kinds of struggle against each rational and inharmonious interaction of view of different notions and on the other which people resort to (as well as which involves in its maelstrom every- base of different ways of comprehension. their intensive interaction). The notion thing that is connected with the given The given article contains brief analysis of struggle is more universal and gen- biners. of the major aspects of war which was eral compared to the notion of war [4]. War is an inevitable consequence of done from the point of view of the basic T. Gobbs noted the universal nature the enmity, or negativity which has been notions of the conception of biner devel- of war as well when he stated that every- accumulated by people. Although initial- oped by the author [See 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. body wages war against everybody. J. ly war is a form of manifesting dishar- According to the data presented by Lock regarded war as a natural state. The mony between the poles of a biner, nev- some scientists, including L. Brassel and well-known Indian thinker of the twen- ertheless war itself is a way of removing M. Brassel, almost four billion people tieth century Sri Aurobindo described the excessive tension which emerges have died during the wars throughout the general nature of war in this way: between the poles of this biner (or the the whole recorded history of mankind; “War is a universal principle determining system of biners), or a means of leading moreover, more than three hundred wars not only material aspects of human life the poles of a biner to new harmony at have taken place on the Earth during last but also the mental and moral existence a higher or lower level of hierarchy in a fi ve hundred years. The whole historical of every person” [11, 136]. Life on the quick and intensive way. From this point human experience shows that war is a Earth is a constant war, or, better to say, of view it is possible to regard war as constant and inevitable state of society struggle at all the levels of being, includ- a manifestation of some social disease and one of the phenomena of human his- ing its material, psychological, intellec- and a way of treating it at the same time. tory. tual and spiritual levels. Although after such intensive treatment As we know, even ancient Greek What is the phenomenon of war from “patients” may sometimes die. philosophers, in particular Heraclitus the philosophical point of view? War is In the most cruel and irreconcilable 3 war there is preserved close intercon- high-mindedness of the special gets its opposite to war and peace as something nection between enemies. This intercon- right and becomes reality (G. Hegel). new and different from the previous state nection is the basis of the possibility of From this point of view war is not a ca- of peace). Peace is the preparation for a starting and the continuation of the war. tastrophe, but, on the contrary, war is the war and the expectation of its beginning. War is a way of active and mutual chang- highest manifestation of human spirit. Peace is a pause between wars. War is the ing each other and adapting societies, At fi rst it may seem that any war most active state of the world. states and other social formations for starts because of some defi nite and obvi- The binary and contradictory nature each other. ous causes and reasons. Martial actions of war fi nds expression in the fact that Wars are an outward manifesta- are based on purely rational principles. in every given war there are at least two tion of struggle which takes place in the That is in its essence war has a clear ra- meanings. These are its real meaning and consciousness of mankind, peoples and tional component. Nevertheless, war is that meaning which are implied by the countries of the world [12,7]. Large- a transition to the unknown, a jump into immediate participants of a war [1,177]. scale wars are a form of expressing colli- uncertainty, a crash of all the rational The immediate participants of a war cre- sions of great epochs giving way to each landmarks and criteria. War is the most ate the whole gamut or cacophony of the other. For example, the First and Second obvious manifestation of human mad- meanings of the given war; however, World Wars are a landmark of the end of ness; many people regard it just as a pure because of different reasons they are not one historical epoch and the beginning of accident. Once Marcus Annaeus Luca- able to comprehend its true meaning. It is a new one (some historians consider that nus noted that during a war laws keep possible to assume that till nowadays no- as a matter of fact both world wars were silence. War is a biner of the rational and body has managed to understand the real one and the same war, just with a small irrational [7]. The thesis of this biner is meaning of the Second World War and its pause between its two stages). irrational. It is the irrational which trans- constituent part – the Great Patriotic War. War is not just a manifestation of the mits its impulses into the rational and War is a form of manifesting the ac- contradictoriness of human life. War it- feeds it with energy. In its turn the ratio- tive and energetic element of the world, – self is a very intricate system of contra- nal gives shape to the irrational, makes that is of the male element. War is a way dictions. Let us consider some of them in it defi nite and comprehensible to some of realizing human purposes by means brief. On the one hand, war is a manifes- extent. of force and maximal display of energy tation of the imperfection and baseness War is the most intensive manifesta- and will.