Question

Could you please explain the following quote?
"The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy."​

Answer 1

Answer:

Carl Schmitt: The Friend-Enemy Distinction

Explanation:

In one of his early and most well-known works, the Concept of the Political, Carl Schmitt endeavors to explore what the political is and is not.  There are multiple layers to Schmitt’s thinking and his criticism of liberalism, in particular, and where he sees himself in the grand scheme of Hegelian epochal historicism and the broader tradition of political philosophy and jurisprudence.  The most famous line of the work is that “The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”