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Sto caricando le informazioni... Peace, Love & Libertydi Tom G. Palmer
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There is no such thing as being 'undecided' about war. It is a binary choice. If you re not for it, you have to be against it.The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal or even a desirable goal, but as an eminently practical objective. Too often peace activists have thought it sufficient merely to call for peace and to denounce war, without investigating the economic, social, political, and psychological conditions of peace. They may oppose this or that war, without considering what causes wars--for example, fallacies about clashes of civilizations, economic conflict, protectionism, and the zero-sum worldview--and then addressing those causes.Peace is not an impractical fantasy, nor is it something for which one must sacrifice prosperity or progress or freedom. In fact, peace, freedom, prosperity, and progress go hand-in-hand.The essays in this book appeal to the mind. They are anchored in sound history, economic reality, empirical psychology, political science, and hard-headed logic, as well as art and the aesthetic imagination. If the heart is to be engaged on behalf of peace, it should be engaged through the mind. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Fairly recently I started reading it online but got distracted.
I was reminded of it, though, when I started reading "Peace, Love, & Liberty" (the comma after "Love" is on the cover even if not listed in the title here).
In that long-ago reading, an almost-unanimous conclusion after one particular chapter was that it was boring: It was the first chapter not to be about war!
Union General Sherman proclaimed, "War is hell!" and then led his arsonists and rapists on a rampage to prove it.
Confederate General Lee, though, said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
Except for George Washington and Winston Churchill -- both of whom wrote exultantly of having bullets pass near them -- most people, especially soldiers who have actually "been there," oppose war.
Widows, orphans, and the war-maimed certainly oppose war.
Samuel Pettingill noted, "War –- after all, what is it that the people get? Why -- widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt."
Somehow, though, somehow, we seem always embroiled in war. WHY?
This excellent book offers both an answer to that question and some suggestions as to how to prevent future wars.
Contents of "Peace, Love, & Liberty" are so good, so consistently profound and important, it's difficult to single out one chapter, but I will try: Chapter 11, "The Art of War," by Sarah Skwire, whose work I have admired before, is my choice as the best and best-written, but she sure has stiff competition.
Included along with that written for this book are some classic works such as the Mark Twain "The War Prayer," which should surely jar any "patriot" into some new thinking.
Poetry by W.H. Auden is referenced and by Wilfred Owen quoted in full.
"Peace, Love, & Liberty" is another of those gems from Jameson Books, small but powerful, and so (relatively) inexpensive that a concerned parent or teacher or civic group could buy cartons of it to distribute to, for example, graduating students or, maybe better, rising seniors.
All praise to Jameson Books, to the Atlas Network, to Students for Liberty, and to Tom G. Palmer, editor and contributor.
As the subtitle tells us: "War Is Not Inevitable." ( )