A Philosophy of WarAlgora Publishing, 2002 - 280 strán (strany) In this snappily-written interdisciplinary framework for understanding war's nature and causation, Moseley considers war from all angles: Christian, Marxist, Platonic, behavioralist, economic, psychological, and biological. He concludes that market-based societies tend to foster cooperation more than combat. |
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Human Nature and War | 51 |
War and Human Biology | 69 |
Between Biology and Culture | 95 |
Culture and War | 121 |
Between Culture and Reason Civilization and War | 157 |
Rationalism and War | 169 |
Idealism Metaphysical Beliefs and War | 205 |
Epistemological Beliefs and War | 225 |
Conclusions on War and Peace | 243 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 263 |
Unintentional War | 145 |
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Strana 113 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Strana 64 - Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
Strana 101 - The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying " This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Strana 75 - The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men.
Strana 66 - Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Strana 191 - Were all these dreadful things necessary? Were they the inevitable results of the desperate struggle of determined patriots, compelled to wade through blood and tumult, to the quiet shore of a tranquil and prosperous liberty ? No ! nothing like it. The fresh ruins of France, which shock our feelings wherever we can turn our eyes, are not the devastation of civil war ; they are the sad but instructive monuments of rash and ignorant counsel in time of profound peace.
Strana 101 - Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
Strana 95 - In the same manner, to the selfish and original passions of human nature, the loss or gain of a very small interest of our own, appears to be of vastly more importance, excites a much more passionate joy or sorrow, a much more ardent desire or aversion, than the greatest concern of another with whom we have no particular connexion.
Strana 119 - The generality of mankind also obey their instincts and principles, all of them; those propensions we call good, as well as the bad, according to the same rules; namely, the constitution of their body, and the external circumstances which they are in.