Philosophical perspectives on peace an anthology of classical and modern sources



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Philosophical perspectives on peace an anthology of classical and modern sources / edited by Howard P. Kainz . — Athens, Ohio :Bloomington : Ohio University Press, : iUniverse, c2012.

x, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Peace through a Highly Centralized World Government

1 [?Pseudo-]Aristotle, Epistle to Alexander the Great on World Government

II Dante Alighieri, Monarchy, book I

III Bertrand Russell, 'On World Governmenť

IV James Strachey, 'Two Possibilities' (extract)

2 Peace through International Federation

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Project of Perpetual Peace

II Immanuel Kant, Eternal Peace

III Publius II, The New Federalist, chapters 1-12, 16

IV Arnold Toynbee, 'Towards a Future World Order'

3 Peace through Distributive Justice

I Jeremy Bentham, 'A Plan for a Universal and Perpetual Peace' (extracts)

II Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, ['On the Primary Cause of War']

III John Rawls, ['The Original Position']

4 Peace through a Triumph of Religious or Spiritual Values

1 Desiderius Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace

II Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, chapters 11, 12(vi)

III Aldous Huxley, 'Time and Eternity' (extract)

IV Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Heart of the Problem'

5 Peace through the Sublimation or Deflection of Aggression

I William James, 'The Moral Equivalent of War

II Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, chapter 5 (extract)

III Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, chapter 14 (conclusion)

6 The Paradoxes of Contemporary Warfare

I T. H. White, 'The Passing of Camelot' (extract)

II Leonard C. Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, sections 4-8

III Jonathan Schell, 'The Choice' (extract)

Index

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