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| Peace: Peace in political philosophy can be understood as a state of social and political harmony, characterized by the absence of violence, war, and injustice. Most political philosophers agree that it requires cooperation, trust, and a commitment to justice. See also Justice, Violence, War, Cooperation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ancient Philosophy on Peace - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 110 Peace/War/Ancient Philosophy/Höffe: Although war, as Aristotle convincingly explains (1), is waged for the sake of peace, peace is not a basic political concept in either classical or post-classical thought in antiquity. By the way, apart from the famous Heraclitus word "war is the father of all things", neither is war. The first great peace theorist of the Occident is Augustine. >Peace/Augustine. 1 Aristotle, Politica VII 14, 1333a35; 15, 1334a15 _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ancient Philosophy Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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