Prof. Harris Believes Societies Start War
War is not natural to mankind, but has been cultivated by human societies, Errol E. Harris, Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor, said last night in Dyche Museum.
Prof. Harris discussed war as a social institution in the second of a series of his lectures on "The Philosophy of War and Feace."
Prof. Harris said war is not inevitable merely because man is naturally inclined to fight.
"IF MANKIND is by nature warlike and quarrelsome, it does not follow that he cannot therefore become civilized and peaceable. That would require that he should also be essentially irrational or even insane," he said.
Prof. Harris questioned whether man is by nature warlike. Warfare is organized and is not the same as the impulsive resort to violence by the individual which is to be found in animals, he said.
THE REASON there is such a connection between organized societies and war, Prof. Harris said, is because they must be free from external attack.
Warfare in unorganized societies and within societies is rare, he said. Rather, warfare seems to be institutional and a feature of more complex organization, he said.
Just as the organization for the pursuit of peace requires the coordination and regulation of numerous and complex activities, the organization for the pursuit of war requires a complex central command to direct operations, he said.
Humans may be divided in two main classes—the food gatherers and the food producers, Prof. Harris said.
THE FOOD-GATHERERS get their livelihood from natural sources, by picking wild fruits, digging wild roots or hunting animals. They live in family groups linked by immediate kinship. This type of people have virtually no social organization and do not practice warfare.
Today there are few such groups. Most have come in contact with more advanced civilization. Where war exists, it has been imposed by more aggressive and more advanced societies, he said.
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When men enter into the food-producing stage of social development, they usually form some type of social organization, with formalized customs and institutions and a recognizable social authority. Prof. Harris said.
IN A FOOD-PRODUCING society, tasks become specialized and each man performs a separate function.
"The coordination and interplay of such functions is not possible with-
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out some form of organization and the imposition of some rules of behavior, and once rules are imposed and recognized, an authority is needed to enunciate, to interpret and to administer the rules," Prof. Harris said.
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The sovereign as the possessor of political power will be the subject of Prof. Harris' next lecture which will be given at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, in Dyche Auditorium.
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