For Pacifists

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473383781
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Pacifists written by M. K. Gandhi and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains extracts form Gandhi's writings and speeches bearing on non-violence. The aim of this book is to present the gist of his teachings in so far they are relevant to those practicing pacifism. Accordingly, the emphasis is laid chiefly on general principles, and on international problems rather than problems of Indian origin and setting. This inspirational text will appeal to those with an interest in Gandhi and his life's work, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: 'A Treatise on Non-Violence', 'The Law of Non-Violence', 'Evidence for The Force of Love', 'Implications of Non-Violence', 'Violence Implies Atheism', 'Courage Required', 'Suffering and Sacrifice', 'Training for Non-Violence', etcetera. This text is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned biography of Mahatma Gandhi.

Author : Duane C. S. Stoltzfus
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142141127X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacifists in Chains written by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the disturbing history of four pacifists imprisoned for their refusal to serve during World War I. To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment “thou shalt not kill” and Jesus’s admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of four young men—Joseph Hofer, Michael Hofer, David Hofer, and Jacob Wipf—who followed these beliefs and refused to perform military service in World War I. The men paid a steep price for their resistance, imprisoned in Alcatraz and Fort Leavenworth, where the two youngest died. The Hutterites buried the men as martyrs, citing mistreatment. Using archival material, letters from the four men and others imprisoned during the war, and interviews with their descendants, Duane C. S. Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.

Author : David Rodin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191531545
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Self-Defense written by David Rodin and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together moral philosophy, political science, and law, David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer. He proposes a comprehensive new theory of the right of self-defense which resolves many of the perplexing questions that have dogged both jurists and moral philosophers. By applying the theory of self-defense to international relations, Rodin produces a far-reaching critique of the canonical Just War theory. The simple analogy between self-defense and national defense - between the individual and the state - needs to be fundamentally rethought, and with it many of the basic elements of international law and the ethics of international relations.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630036
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Pacifism written by Scott H Bennett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107121868
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingent Pacifism written by Larry May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Has Man a Future? written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betragtninger over muligheden for at undgå en atomkrig

Author : Daniel Akst
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199259
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War By Other Means written by Daniel Akst and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akst argues that the modern progressive movement, wide-ranging in its causes and narratives today, has origins in the pacifist response to American involvement in World War II... At its best, one gets the sense of generative force born from such intense intellectual, moral and religious pressure." -- The Washington Post Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds—but their resistance, philosophy, and strategies fostered a tradition of activism that shaped America right up to the present day. In this provocative and deeply researched work of history, Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters -- four figures who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists -- and their daring exploits: David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin. The lives of these diverse anti-war advocates--a principled and passionate seminary student, a Catholic anarchist, a high-brow intellectual leftist, and an African-American pacifist and agitator--create the perfect prism through which to see World War II from a new angle, that of the opposition, as well as to show how great and lasting their achievements were. The resisters did not stop the war, of course, but their impact would be felt for decades. Many of them went on to lead the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the two most important social stands of the second half of the twentieth century. The various World War II resisters pioneered non-violent protest in America, popularized Gandhian principles, and desegregated the first prison mess halls. Theirs is a story that has never been told.

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Pacifists written by M. K. Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476481
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age written by Mark Douglas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new understanding of the traditions of Christian pacifism in order to address wars in a warming world.

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testament of Youth written by Vera Brittain and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: