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9780823216437

How to Think About War and Peace

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  • ISBN13:

    9780823216437

  • ISBN10:

    0823216438

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-02-01
  • Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr

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Summary

Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: "In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular problems and formulations has a unique advantage. He can make effective contact with the concrete and the immediate without losing a dispassionate vision of the universal and the timeless. He can exercise that critical detachment necessary for a thoughtful, rather than an emotional, judgement upon the conflicting policies which solicit his adherance." How to think About War and Peace discusses immediate issues in terms of eternal principles, viewing present problems in the large perspectives that history and philosophy can provide. This book engages in a timeless project not contingenton current events, but cumulated from a continuing history of the battle between war and peace. Written in the midst of the Second World War, Adler's purpose was not to proffer how to make peace after the end of the war, but rather to instruct how to think about peace and war and how to continue this process to maintain peace, or, how to effect its establishment.

Author Biography


Mortimer J. Adler was the director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago and a member of the board of editors of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 1995 Edition
A Plea to the Reader
Preface
The Problem of Peace
The Questions Men Must Facep. 3
The Answers Men Have Givenp. 8
The Possibility of Peace
The Inevitability of Warp. 27
The Abnormality of Warp. 32
What Peace Isp. 44
How Peace Is Madep. 55
The Only Cause of Warp. 69
The Right and Wrong of Sovereigntyp. 84
The Peace of Angelsp. 101
Civil Warp. 110
The Degrees of Peacep. 113
A Society of Menp. 136
The Inexorable Alternativep. 152
The Probability of Peace
An Optimistic View of Historyp. 167
The Future of Democracyp. 178
Progress Toward Peacep. 188
The Physics of Peacep. 209
The Economic Communityp. 221
The Obstacles to Peacep. 230
Revolution for Peacep. 254
Education for Peacep. 265
The Practicality of Peace
Endsp. 281
Meansp. 288
The Long Runp. 296
Bibliography of Quoted Matter
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