Peace and war : historical, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives / W. John Morgan, Alexandre Guilherme, editors.

Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives is an accessible, higher-level critical discussion of philosophical commentaries on the nature of peace and war. It introduces and analyses various philosophies of peace and war, and their continuing theoretical and practical...

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Other Authors: Morgan, W. John (Editor), Guilherme, Alexandre (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Online Access:Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Bartolomé de las Casas' Critique of War and Vision of Peace
  • Chapter Two: The Heart of the Daodejing: Non-violent Personhood
  • Chapter Three: The Augustinian Legacy of Divine Peace and Earthly War
  • Chapter Four: Pacifism or Bourgeois Pacifism? Huxley, Orwell, and Caudwell
  • Chapter Five: Julien Freund on War and Peace: Mitigated Realism
  • Chapter Six: Revolutionary War and Peace
  • Chapter Seven: Catastrophe and Conversion: Culture, Conflict, and Violence in the Hermeneutics of René Girard
  • Chapter Eight: Learning for Peace: The Montessori Way
  • Chapter Nine: Peace and Violence in Poor Rural Schools in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
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