Political Science

The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History

Paperback

Price:
$60.00/拢50.00
ISBN:
Published:
Mar 21, 2017
1987
Pages:
328
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.

James Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This scrutiny of the peace issue鈥 in Western society covers nearly two thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and the Utopian world-perfecting pacifism that finds the cure for discord among nations in the establishment of a new, more nearly universal, and rightly constituted political order. Revealing the historical depth of all three traditions, the book shows that contemporary 鈥渘uclear pacifism鈥 derives from forms of thought that are centuries old.

Originally published in 1987.

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