Unit 3: Philosophy and metapsychology of peace

Overview

For millennia, philosophers, religious thinkers and political activists have written about and demonstrated for ‘peace’ and decried war. Yet a ‘philosophy’ of peace is still in its infancy. And while theorists, strategists, tacticians and planners of war and ‘security studies’ dominate both the academy and the halls of power, philosophers who profess and march for peace do so outside the mainstream philosophical curriculum, far removed from those with the power to make and enforce important political decisions, and often to the dismay and castigation of their more ‘echt philosophical’ colleagues.
 

Suggested Reading: 

  1. Barak, Gregg. 2003. Violence & Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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