Tag: Pacifism

Free Download Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement
by Maxwell Kennel
English | 2023 | ISBN: 900454643X | 246 Pages | True PDF | 2.58 MB

Free Download The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism By Paul R. Fleischman
2002 | 62 Pages | ISBN: 1928706223 | PDF | 1 MB
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, this thought-provoking essay explores the Buddha’s teaching to find one prescription: not war, not pacifism but nonviolence.

Free Download Pacifism As War Abolitionism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032686146 | 227 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Pacifism as War Abolitionism provides an account of the war system that draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy. The core of its critique of that system is that war begets war, and hence war will not be ended-or even constrained-by finding more principled ways to fight war, as many imagine. War can only be ended by ending the war system, which can only be done nonviolently. This has been the message of pacifism’s great voices like Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day. It is the principal message of this book.

Free Download Andrew Fiala, "The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence "
English | ISBN: 0367572273 | 2020 | 418 pages | EPUB | 986 KB
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