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Choosing War
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 63, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 150-155
- 10.1353/dss.2016.0000
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Hobbes doesn’t come up much in Georgetown University philosopher Nancy Sherman’s book Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers, but his definition of war as nature implicitly informs everything she says. Like Hobbes, Sherman would have her readers forget that war is a thing humans do to each other. Like Hobbes, Sherman would like to believe that war is something that exists outside civilization.