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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Pacifism as a Positive Theory of Human Flourishing -- The Just War Myth revisited -- Peace as the end and as the means -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Gandhi, Buber, and the Dream of a Great and Lasting Peace -- Gandhi, Buber, and the challenge of Nazism -- Fighting fire with fire -- Quenching fire with transformational pacifism -- Chapter 3: Pacifism in Applied Ethics: Normative Theory and the Pacific Virtues -- Pacifism as normative theory -- Beyond the Pacifism-Realism Continuum -- Pacifism as critical social theory -- The pacific virtues -- Applying pacifism to 'the life issues' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Pacifism as Critical Theory -- The dis-ease of critical pacifism -- On seeing structural and other violence -- Normative critique -- The complexity of violence and harm -- The importance of dialectic -- Conclusion: Critical theory and the difficulty of pacifism -- Chapter 5: Pacifism, Utopia, and Human Rights -- Utopianism and meliorism in pacifism -- Utopianism in other moral theories -- Transformative pacifism's avoidance of utopianism -- Reply to further objections -- Objection 2: Pacifism is inconsistent -- Objection 3: Pacifism is immoral -- Objection 4: Pacifism is bourgeois and reactionary -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Peaceful Self -- The uncanny retreat to inner peace -- Traditions of inner peace -- Soma-aesthetics and peace-inducing practices -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Domestic Tranquillity -- The public/private distinction -- Tranquillity and peace at home -- Phenomenology of the home -- Care ethics: Relational and transformative justice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Pacific Culture and Cultural Violence -- Cultural violence, violent culture, and cultures of peace -- The causal problem -- Conclusion

"Interest in pacifisman idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditionsis growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and nonviolence, to their history and philosophy, and to pacifisms most serious critiques. The volume offers 32 brand new chapters from the worlds leading experts across a diverse range of fields, who togetherprovide a broad discussion of pacifism and nonviolence in connection with virtue ethics, capital punishment, animal ethics, ecology, queer theory, and feminism, among other areas. This Handbook is divided into four sections: (1) Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations, (2) Conceptual and Moral Considerations, (3) Social and Political Considerations, and (4) Applications.It concludes with an Afterword by James Lawson, one of the icons of the nonviolent American Civil Rights movement. The text will be invaluable to scholars and students, as well as to activists and general readers interested in peace, nonviolence, and critical perspectives on war and violence."--Provided by publisher.

Preliminary material /Editors The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace -- Preface: THE NATURE OF PEACE AND THE PEACE OF NATURE /ANDREW FIALA -- INTRODUCTION: VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT /ANDREW FIALA -- RETURN TO EARTH: A NEW NATURAL PHILOSOPHY? /ANDREW FITZ-GIBBON -- REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE /MICHAEL ALLEN FOX -- ON WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A PROPOSED REVISION IN THE ETHICS OF RESTRAIN /LLOYD STEFFEN -- NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF MILITARISM ON THE ENVIRONMENT /WILLIAM GAY -- A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF HUMAN DWELLING /WENDY C. HAMBLET -- MORAL EXTENSIONISM AND NONVIOLENCE: AN ESSENTIAL RELATION? /SANJAY LAL -- ANTHROPOCENTRISM, CONSERVATISM, AND GREEN POLITICAL THOUGHT /MICHAEL HEMMINGSEN -- GUERRILLA GARDENING AS NONVIOLENT PRAXIS: EXISTENTIALIST ETHICS IN FOOD DESERTS /DAMON BORIA -- SLOW VIOLENCE AND THE ESCHATOLOGICAL CRISIS OF AGRICULTURE /JONATHAN McCONNELL -- RESOLVING SOCIO-POLITICAL CONFLICT IN AFRICA /SOLOMON AKINYEMI LALEYE -- SEQUOYAH AND SEATTLE: CHIEF WORLD SYSTEMS /DAVID BOERSEMA -- THE BELOVED COMMUNITY: A NEO-ARISTOTELIAN PERSPECTIVE /ANDREW FITZ-GIBBON -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS /Editors The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace -- INDEX /Editors The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace.

Andrew Fiala's Against Religion, Wars, and States: The Case For Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism argues that we need to overcome the idea of the nation-state and look toward global justice, that we need to develop a more critical stance toward religion while embracing enlightened humanism and natural science, and that we need to look beyond violent solutions to social problems in order to build world peace

The United States has a unique responsibility and opportunity to use democracy to end war; but, after 9/11, many can no longer imagine pacifism. in any form. Practical Pacifism argues for an approach to peace that aims beyond religion toward a moral consen

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Philosophy and the Virtue of Tolerance -- The Socratic model -- Philosophy and scepticism -- 2 Critical Moral Tolerance -- The complexity and difficulty of toleration -- Apathy and relativism -- Pluralism and relativism -- Pluralism and critical toleration -- 3 Tolerance, Modesty and the Limits of the Moral Imagination -- The promise of the imagination: David Norton and Martin Buber -- The failure of the imagination -- Tolerance and condemnation: suicide and sati -- Tolerance and action -- Tolerance and ignorance -- Conclusion: tolerance and education -- 4 Stoic Tolerance -- Stoicism: preliminary consideration -- Epictetus -- Marcus Aurelius -- Stoic tolerance -- Conclusion -- 5 Modern Philosophy and Inward Sincerity: Religion, Existentialism and Pragmatism -- Descartes, Spinoza and Rousseau -- Self-knowledge and the mystery of the person -- Emerson and James -- Royce -- Marcel -- Conclusion -- 6 Existentialism and Repressive Toleration -- Transcendence and truth -- Toleration, risk and action -- Conclusion: dogmatism, silence and toleration -- 7 Liberal Toleration -- Locke's epistemological liberalism -- Mill and the moral affirmation of diversity -- Toleration, multiculturalism and the open forum of ideas -- Conclusion -- 8 Liberalism and Pragmatism -- The fact of diversity -- Pluralism and relativism: Rawls and Walzer -- Rawls, Rorty and pragmatism -- The pragmatic pluralism of John Lachs -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: Socrates Beyond Liberalism -- The problem of politics -- Pluralistic convergence and fanaticism -- Conclusion: beyond the cave -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The United States has a unique responsibility and opportunity to use democracy to end war; but, after 9/11, many can no longer imagine pacifism in any form. Practical Pacifism argues for an approach to peace that aims beyond religion toward a moral consensus that is developed ragmatically through dialogue aimed at overlapping consensus.

AbstractThose who think of peace as an intrinsic value might be called "intuitionist pacifists" or "intuitive pacifists." For pacifists of this sort, peace functions as an unanalyzable foundational value. The pacifist intuition is often meta‐ethical and not the result of argument or inference. Understanding pacifism in this way helps explain some disputes between pacifism and its critics. The article makes this argument with appeal to historical sources, both in the literature on pacifism and in the literature on intuitionism. It contributes to our understanding of the history of pacifism, while also offering a pacifist contribution to the theory of intuitionism.

AbstractThis paper examines the ideal of the democratic peace and the recent misuse of this ideal in the war on terrorism. It argues against the idea that aggressive military force can be employed to bring about the ideal of the democratic peace. By looking at John Stuart Mill's utilitarian justification of benevolent despotism for "barbarians," it examines how idealism can lead to a defense of aggressive intervention. And it considers how idealistic zeal can lead to violations of just war principles, as in the case of Hiroshima. It concludes by arguing that Kant's deontological approach is better. Kant provides us with a reason to hope that as democracy spreads, peace will spread as well. But Kant also prohibits us from using force to actualize this ideal.