The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence

2018-02-02 Philosophy

Author : Andrew Fiala
Release : 2018-02-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence written by Andrew Fiala. This book was released on 2018-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in pacifism—an idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditions—is growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and nonviolence, to their history and philosophy, and to pacifism’s most serious critiques. The volume offers 32 brand new chapters from the world’s leading experts across a diverse range of fields, who together provide a broad discussion of pacifism and nonviolence in connection with virtue ethics, capital punishment, animal ethics, ecology, queer theory, and feminism, among other areas. This Handbook is divided into four sections: (1) Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations, (2) Conceptual and Moral Considerations, (3) Social and Political Considerations, and (4) Applications. It concludes with an Afterword by James Lawson, one of the icons of the nonviolent American Civil Rights movement. The text will be invaluable to scholars and students, as well as to activists and general readers interested in peace, nonviolence, and critical perspectives on war and violence.

Religion, Pacifism, and Nonviolence

2018-08-27 Philosophy

Author : James Kellenberger
Release : 2018-08-27
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Religion, Pacifism, and Nonviolence written by James Kellenberger. This book was released on 2018-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form. Pacifism is one religious approach to war and violence. Another is embodied in just war theories, and both pacifism and just war thinking are critically examined. Although moral support for pacifism is presented, a main focus of the book is on religious support for pacifism, found in various religious traditions. A crucial distinction for pacifism is that between force and violence. Pacifism informed by nonviolence excludes violence, but, the book argues, allows forms of force. Peacekeeping is an activity that on the face of it seems compatible with pacifism, and several different forms of peacekeeping are examined. The implications of nonviolence for the treatment of nonhuman animals are also examined. Two models for attaining the conditions required for a world without war have been proposed. Both are treated and one, the model of a biological human family, is developed. The book concludes with reflections on the role of pacifism in each of five possible futurescapes.

Pacifism

2016-12-15 Philosophy

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Release : 2016-12-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Pacifism written by Robert L. Holmes. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nonviolence

2020-07

Author : Andrew Fiala
Release : 2020-07
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Download or read book Nonviolence written by Andrew Fiala. This book was released on 2020-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of nonviolence. It offers answers to the questions of what nonviolence is, how and why it ought to be used, and who ought to employ it. The book discusses examples of successful nonviolent social protest, from 20th Century movements for civil rights and colonial liberation to the Arab Spring and contemporary Black Lives Matter protests. It considers recent research that explains the power of nonviolence. It also explores philosophical and religious sources of nonviolence, while discussing key historical figures including Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Malala Yousafzai. The book offers insight into the link between nonviolence and democracy. And it reminds us that nonviolence gives us the power to build a better -more just, truthful, and loving- world.

The Handbook of Non-violence

1986 Political Science

Author : Robert A. Seeley
Release : 1986
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The Handbook of Non-violence written by Robert A. Seeley. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief essays discuss the nature of war, the morality of pacifism, nationalism, revolution, imperialism, economic warfare, nuclear weapons, the Sanctuary Movement, peacekeeping forces, and pacifist leaders

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