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Author : Nathan Eckstrand
Release : 2011-02-24
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Philosophy and the Return of Violence by : Nathan Eckstrand
Download or read book Philosophy and the Return of Violence written by Nathan Eckstrand. This book was released on 2011-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Release : 2012-04-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Law of Love and The Law of Violence by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Law of Love and The Law of Violence written by Leo Tolstoy. This book was released on 2012-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise articulates Tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to do violence — a philosophy that has inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and countless others.
Author : Joan Valerie Bondurant
Release : 2020-09-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 048/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conquest of Violence by : Joan Valerie Bondurant
Download or read book Conquest of Violence written by Joan Valerie Bondurant. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "experiments with Truth" were far from complete at the time of his death, but he had developed a new technique for effecting social and political change through the constructive conduct of conflict: Gandhian satyagraha had become eminently more than "passive resistance" or "civil disobedience." By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores, in terms familiar to the Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy.
Author : Barry L. Gan
Release : 2013-08-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Violence and Nonviolence by : Barry L. Gan
Download or read book Violence and Nonviolence written by Barry L. Gan. This book was released on 2013-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Nonviolence: an Introduction critiques five dominant societal views about violence and nonviolence. Using evidence from scientific studies as well as anecdotal evidence and news reports, esteemed scholar and editor Barry L. Gan shows readers that these widely adopted and violent views are largely mistaken, and require a fundamental rethinking and adjustment. By synthesizing new research with old philosophies, Gan introduces readers to an alternative paradigm of nonviolence through which we can begin to build a more peaceful world. Nonviolent strategic action — a kind of selective nonviolence — is the first of the two alternative paradigms that provides a concrete approach to addressing social and political problems arising from violence. Nonviolence as a way of life is the second of the paradigms that expands upon (and in some respects critiques) the first, preferring a comprehensive and radical response to the scourges of violence that have plagued human history.
Author : Michael A. Peters
Release : 2020-10-19
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 280/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Far-Right, Education and Violence by : Michael A. Peters
Download or read book The Far-Right, Education and Violence written by Michael A. Peters. This book was released on 2020-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade the far-right, associated with white nationalism, identitarian politics, and nativist ideologies, has established itself as a major political force in the West, making substantial electoral gains across Europe, the USA, and Latin America, and coalescing with the populist movements of Trump, Brexit, and Boris Johnson’s 2019 election in the UK. This political shift represents a major new political force in the West that has rolled back the liberal internationalism that developed after WWI and shaped world institutions, globalization, and neoliberalism. It has also impacted upon the democracies of the West. Its historical origins date from the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, and Austria from the 1920s. In broad philosophical terms, the movement can be conceived as a reaction against the rationalism and individualism of liberal democratic societies, and a political revolt based on the philosophies of Nietzsche, Darwin, and Bergson that purportedly embraced irrationalism, subjectivism, and vitalism. This edited collection of essays by Michael A Peters and Tina Besley, taken from the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory, provides a philosophical discussion of the rise of the far-right and uses it as a canvas to understand the return of fascism, white supremacism, acts of terrorism, and related events, including the refugee crisis, the rise of authoritarian populism, the crisis of international education, and Trump’s ‘end of globalism’.
