Concept
Pacifism
Overview
opposition to war and violence
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It is useless to multiply examples; but it is plain that the very same vital energy which produces all that is best also produces war and the love of war. This is the basis of the opposition to pacifism felt by many men whose aims and activities are by no means brutal. Pacifism, in practice, too often expresses merely lack of force, not the refusal to use force in thwarting others. Pacifism, if it is to be both…
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
Names Pacifism several times; the author is tied to Pacifism in the knowledge graph.
At the same time there have been developing under the same three sanctions, restraints and incentives of another order, similarly characterized by subordination of the proximate to the remote. Joint aggressions upon men outside the society cannot prosper if there are many aggressions of man on man within the society. War implies co-operation; and co-operation is prevented by antagonisms among those who are to…
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
Close in meaning to Pacifism; the term itself is not named.
Waley, called by him _The Old Man with the Broken Arm_, to make a hero of a recruit who maimed himself to escape military service. Their pacifism is rooted in their contemplative outlook, and in the fact that they do not desire to change whatever they see. They take a pleasure--as their pictures show--in observing characteristic manifestations of different kinds of life, and they have no wish to reduce everything to…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
States what Pacifism is; the author is tied to Pacifism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Pacifism
- Robert L. Holmes
- Sidney Hook
- Mircea Eliade
- Simone Weil
- Sam Harris
- Ludwig Klages
- J. M. E. McTaggart
- Dwight Macdonald
- Richard Clyde Taylor
- Bertrand Russell
- Henry David Thoreau
- Brand Blanshard
- Rudolf Carnap
- Aldous Huxley
- Michael Walzer
- The End of Faith
- Hans Driesch
- Louis Couturat
- André Gorz
- Aldo Capitini
- Alain (philosopher)
- Henryk Hiż
- George Ohsawa
- Duane Cady
Related ideas
- Erasmus
- Aristophanes
- Albert Schweitzer
- Gregory Vlastos
- Evangelicalism
- Jesus
- BBC News
- Germany
- Anarchism
- Athens
- Robert L. Holmes
- Ahimsa in Jainism
- Hinduism
- Italy
- Immanuel Kant
- Jane Addams
- Japan
- Judaism
- Joseph Stalin
- Reactionary
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jainism
- Indian independence movement
- Jihad
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.