Philosophy of war and peace

The topic of war and peace is as relevant today as it was several millennia ago. Though views on and motives for warfare have changed over the centuries, 'Philosophy of War and Peace' proves that many past ideas still merit consideration today.00This exhaustive collection of essays address...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Clercq, Eva de (-)
Otros Autores: Praet, Danny, contribuïdor, editor literari, scriptor de prefaci (contribuïdor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brussel : VUB Press [2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In defence of war: the Bhagavad Gītā / Eva De Clercq
  • No country has ever benefited from a protracted war’ China and the Art of war / Bart Dessein
  • Buddhism on war and peace : some thoughts and examples / Ann Heirman
  • Greek and Roman philosophers on war and pace / Danny Praet
  • Iustum bellum and jihad in medieval philosophy / Danny Praet
  • Niccolò Machiavelli : the logic of conflict, against the logic of war / Sonja Lavaert
  • Michel de Montaigne : philosophy as inner struggle / Alexander Roose
  • Philosophy of war and peace
  • While reading Kant’s ‘Perpetual peace’ / Emiliano Acosta & Gertrudis Van de Vijver
  • Kant’s conditions for peace : a critical approach / Tomas Baum
  • Marxism and the question of war and peace / Jan Dumolyn
  • On war and warriors: Friedrich Nietzsche / Benjamin Biebuyck
  • State terror / Gie van den Berghe
  • The memory of peace / Maarten Van Alstein
  • Commemoration / Gie van den Berghe
  • Truth commissions : A philosophical approach / Dietlinde Wouters