Concept
World War I
Overview
1914–1918 global conflict
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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"We must crush the most treacherous and malicious of our foes," cries a third. "We must break the tyranny which England exercises over the sea with base self-seeking and shameless contempt of justice and right." The War is directed not against Czarism, but primarily against England's supremacy on the sea. "It may be said," Professor Schiehmann confesses, "that no success of ours has given us such joy as the defeat…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to World War I; the term itself is not named.
On the issue of declaring war, however, public opinion was different. It was President Wilson's summons to the neutrals to follow him in breaking off diplomatic relations that had given force to the earlier campaign; but on June 5th the American Minister, acting on instructions, presented a Note to the Chinese Government urging that the preservation of national unity was more important than entry into the war, and…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
The author is tied to World War I in the knowledge graph.
The scope of the Great War furnishes an urgent as well as convenient starting point for the discussion. The extent of that war is unparalleled, because the conditions involved in it are so new. The dynastic conflicts of the seventeenth century are called by the same name: we have only one word, “war.” The sameness of the word too easily conceals from us the difference in significance. We think of all wars as much…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
States what World War I is; the author is tied to World War I in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed World War I
- Albert Schweitzer
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- R. H. Tawney
- Georg Simmel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Étienne Gilson
- Ernst Troeltsch
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gershom Scholem
- Thomas Carlyle
- Henri Bergson
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz
- James Mark Baldwin
- Julian Huxley
- Tomáš Masaryk
- Jane Addams
- Hans Reichenbach
- Mircea Eliade
- John Dewey
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Kurt Gödel
- Roland Barthes
- Karl Mannheim
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Shandong
- Vladimir Lenin
- BBC News
- Germany
- Anarchism
- German Empire
- Historiography
- House of Habsburg
- Iran
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Joseph Stalin
- Jerusalem
- Indian independence movement
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Internet Archive
- Library of Congress
- Macedonia (region)
- Benito Mussolini
- Great Depression
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mesopotamia
- New Guinea
- Russian Empire
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Alan Bullock.