ABSTRACT
The Blind Natural Force tendency is described as being composed of the primordial violence, hatred and enmity, which are to be regarded as a blind natural force. Clausewitz then refers to this element as passion. Clausewitz's methodology was heavily indebted to the Enlightenment and the broad standards of rational enquiry it promoted. By the end of the eighteenth century an oppositional intellectual movement to the Enlightenment had emerged, which, in the broad terms, was critical of the world-view associated with the mechanistic rationality Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace and the Reinvention of War of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant whom Clausewitz was familiar with through his attendance of the lectures of the Kantian populariser, Johann Kiesewetter, while at the Berlin War Academy Peter Paret, Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times represented a crucial link between the Enlightenment and the German Movement.
