Romanticism and Nations
Posted on June 26, 2003
Filed Under Korea, personal, pol |
Ever since about a month ago, I’ve had a kind of niggling little problem eating away at my thinking. At that time, I was discussion nationalism and the rule of law with my famous Northstar class. I asked the class about what they thought of the Geneva Conventions and the justifiability of war… basically asking if the idea of a “just war” philosophy or tradition is acceptable, since that is what the Geneva Conventions to some degree implies the validity of.
One of the students got herself into what I thought was a conundrum. Except that she didn’t seem to see any conundrum at all. This disturbed me somewhat, since the thinking was far more alien than any other “alien” thing I’ve encountered since I left Canada.
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