This is a far cry from ordinary selfishness. From this point of view the _bellum omnium contra omnes_ appears as the materialistic fancy of a man whose idea of the world was inferred from the idea of the body. Man’s body is in fact one among many. But man’s will in his opposition to other wills reveals his universality. That opposition which had been taken as proof of the plurality and radical particularity of subjective will is insisted upon by Gentile as a proof of the unity and radical universality of such will. Men’s wills collide with each other, it is true, but they do so in the very attempt to enforce the claims of that in them which is universal. For will has not realised itself as long as it stands as one will face to face with another will or so many other wills. In such a position it appears as one among many, as accidental and particular, as having a law differing from that of the others; whereas it always claims to be Will, against which there can be no other will—experience shows us daily that nothing can be done when diverging wills are exerting themselves—and such is the characteristic of the moral will. The statement of this problem, the moral problem, is very difficult indeed, and from a misrepresentation of the relations between _my_ will and _your_ will and _his_ will, arise conflict and war; but our conception of war is not complete if we consider it apart from the conception of peace. War is nothing but the realisation of peace, which is the reconciliation of a duality or plurality of wills in the Will. This is why war exists and why there are private interests conflicting in the plurality of wills. Such war and conflict, however, are due to the particularity of the wills and last as long as each of these wills insists on realising itself as universal, ceasing when they compose their differences and accept as the common will that which has manifested its universality through the conflict. A peace without war cannot be conceived, since peace is the life of will and will cannot live but in a self-assertion which is nothing but the eternal resolution of the conflict through which it comes into being. Thus will is, and ever must be, _concordia discors_.