Concept

World War II

Overview

1939–1945 global conflict

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed World War II

• Gilbert Ryle
• Kitarō Nishida
• Leszek Kołakowski
• Bernard Lonergan
• Keiji Nishitani
• BBC News
• Jean Wahl
• Nelson Goodman
• George Berkeley
• Georg Henrik von Wright
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• John Rawls
• Thomas Carlyle
• Antony Flew
• Henri Bergson
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Norwood Russell Hanson
• Norberto Bobbio
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz
• John Hick
• Julian Huxley
• Immanuel Kant
• J. O. Urmson
• Stephen Toulmin

Related ideas

• The Holocaust
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• German Empire
• Joseph Stalin
• Kuomintang
• Empire of Japan
• Beijing
• Assam
• Spanish Civil War
• Benito Mussolini
• Russian Empire
• Nazi Germany
• Nuremberg
• New Mexico
• Nationalism
• Ottoman Empire
• Saint Petersburg
• Soviet Union
• Adolf Hitler
• Slavery
• Silesia
• Treaty of Versailles
• Totalitarianism
• The New York Times

Opposing perspectives

• Welfare state
• Mimesis
• Scientific community
• Quebec
• Situationist International
• Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu

Place in the tradition

Part of Absurdism.

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