Pacifism

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474279840

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Pacifism by Robert L. Holmes Pdf

In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified. Leading philosopher of non-violence Robert Holmes contends that neither just war theory nor the rationales for recent wars (Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars) defeat that presumption, hence that war in the modern world is morally unjustified. A detailed, comprehensive and elegantly argued text which guides both students and scholars through the main debates (Just War Theory and double effect to name a few) clearly but without oversimplifying the complexities of the issues or historical examples.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815630034

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Radical Pacifism by Scott H Bennett Pdf

This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Author : David Rodin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191531545

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War and Self-Defense by David Rodin Pdf

When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together moral philosophy, political science, and law, David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer. He proposes a comprehensive new theory of the right of self-defense which resolves many of the perplexing questions that have dogged both jurists and moral philosophers. By applying the theory of self-defense to international relations, Rodin produces a far-reaching critique of the canonical Just War theory. The simple analogy between self-defense and national defense - between the individual and the state - needs to be fundamentally rethought, and with it many of the basic elements of international law and the ethics of international relations.

Author : Shin Chiba,Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848443839

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Peace Movements and Pacifism After September 11 by Shin Chiba,Thomas J. Schoenbaum Pdf

The book is a major contribution to our understanding of peace movements and pacifism after 11 September. While most people tend to take the importance of 11 September for granted, the book challenges the general understanding of the development and implications of the events. . . In addition, the philosophical, religious and theoretical discussion enriches peace research scholarship. Jian Yang, New Zealand International Review Noted international scholars from a range of disciplines present in this book Japanese and East Asian perspectives on the changed prospects for international peace post September 11. Because East Asia has not been preoccupied with the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the authors views serve as a balance to the war on terror declared in the United States. The book begins with chapters that explore the attacks from an historical perspective, and discuss whether they were indeed watershed events that changed the world. Further chapters explore pacifism in philosophy and religion through Kant, Christianity, Islam and constitutional pacifism in postwar Japan. The concluding chapters discuss concrete ways to move toward peace in the twenty-first century. Scholars of international studies and politics, the Middle East and religion will find this insightful book a valuable addition to their library.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : PSU:000028881797

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Has Man a Future? by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Betragtninger over muligheden for at undgå en atomkrig

Author : Ward Churchill,Michael Ryan
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629633299

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Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill,Michael Ryan Pdf

Pacifism as Pathology has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay “Pacifism as Pathology” was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill’s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—”hegemony of nonviolence” on the North American left. The essay’s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan’s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill’s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white “progressives,” is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents’ desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power. This short book challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement—suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Churchill also examines the Jewish Holocaust, pointing out that the overwhelming response of Jews was nonviolent, but that when they did use violence they succeeded in inflicting significant damage to the nazi war machine and saving countless lives. As relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill’s and Ryan’s trailblazing efforts were first published together in book form in 1998. Now, along with the preface to that volume by former participant in armed struggle/political prisoner Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a powerful new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081563028X

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Radical Pacifism by Scott H Bennett Pdf

This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400878376

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Pacifism in the United States by Peter Brock Pdf

Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Susan Schultz Huxman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105212833003

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Landmark Speeches on US Pacifism by Susan Schultz Huxman Pdf

United States peace rhetoric is courageous, diverse, challenging, persuasive, and woefully under-exposed. This collection of landmark speeches in peace gives overdue scholarly notice to key figures on the American peace scene (politicians, athletes, journalists, preachers, movement leaders, scientists, doctors, academics, etc.) who have given vibrant, authentic voice and rhetorical significance to the important peace tradition in the United States from World War I until today.

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476485

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Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age by Mark Douglas Pdf

Provides a new understanding of the traditions of Christian pacifism in order to address wars in a warming world.

Author : Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350039216

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Transformative Pacifism by Andrew Fiala Pdf

Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action. Pacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wide. It is similar to other transformative social theories: feminism, ecology, animal welfare, cosmopolitanism, human rights theory. Indeed, behind those theories is often the pacifist idea that violence, power, and domination are wrong. Pacifist theory raises consciousness about unjustifiable violence. This in turn leads to transformations in practical life. Many other books defend nonviolence and pacifism by focusing on failed justifications of war, as well as on the strategic value of nonviolence. This book begins by reviewing and accepting those sort of arguments. It then focuses on what a commitment to pacifism and nonviolence means in terms of a variety of practical issues. Pacifists reject the violent presuppositions of a society based upon power, strength, nationalism, and the system of militarized nation-states. Pacifism transforms psychological, social, political, and economic life. This book will be of interest to those who are disenchanted with ongoing violence, violent rhetoric, terrorism, wars, and the war industry. It gives anyone with pacifist sympathies reassurance: pacifists are not wrong to think that violence and war are immoral, irrational, and insane and that there is always an alternative.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0415094100

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Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18 by Bertrand Russell Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107121867

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Contingent Pacifism by Larry May Pdf

The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139471855

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Peace by David Cortright Pdf

Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all placed within a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about 'the responsibility to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation.

Author : Dale W. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0871781085

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Biblical Pacifism by Dale W. Brown Pdf