Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- INTRODUCTION
- Ist Teil von
- The Quest for Peace, 2017, p.XI
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The quest for peace has become one of contemporary Western culture’s major moral concerns. That concern, for many persons, is focused by the existence of nuclear weapons and the fear—for some even the expectation—that if these weapons were to be used in war, all life on earth would be destroyed. This is, for example, the message of Jonathan Schell’s widely circulated book,The Fate of the Earth,¹ as it is of much other recent literature; the theologian Gordon Kaufmann, for example, finds in nuclear weapons the possibility of the ultimate rebellion of mankind against God, for now, Kaufmann
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1m3nw6h_4
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Armed conflict, Axiology, Behavioral sciences, Christian ethics, Christian history, Christian morality, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Criminal law, Criminal offenses, Developmental psychology, Developmental psychology theories, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Federal criminal offenses, International humanitarian law, International law, International politics, International relations, Just war, Law, Laws of war, Military science, Moral development, Morality, Normative ethics, Pacifism, Peacetime, Philosophy, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political science, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Religious terrorism, Sectarian violence, Spiritual belief systems, Terrorism, War