Palace of CrystalCurrent affairs and peace politics: the dangers of charismatic leaders to democracy and the peace of the world, and how peace might be achieved for the longer term. |
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... abolishing war remains unsolved. It is resistant to sensible argument, and somehow overcomes even our instinct for survival. An appeal to reason has failed time and again. Evidently something other than reason is involved. * This book ...
... abolishing war remains unsolved. It is resistant to sensible argument, and somehow overcomes even our instinct for survival. An appeal to reason has failed time and again. Evidently something other than reason is involved. * This book ...
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... abolished. Yet, despite the dangers that have been so carefully set out, war persists. Why is the problem of war so ... abolish war, mankind will not survive. We have the other great nuclear physicist of the 20th century, Niels Bohr, so ...
... abolished. Yet, despite the dangers that have been so carefully set out, war persists. Why is the problem of war so ... abolish war, mankind will not survive. We have the other great nuclear physicist of the 20th century, Niels Bohr, so ...
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... abolish war. 2 Even in those pre-nuclear days Einstein saw the problem posed by war as a matter of life and death for civilisation.* (* By civilisation is meant simply the improvements in understanding, morality and culture that have ...
... abolish war. 2 Even in those pre-nuclear days Einstein saw the problem posed by war as a matter of life and death for civilisation.* (* By civilisation is meant simply the improvements in understanding, morality and culture that have ...
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... abolish war, and move on to the other side of the argument. Here we have – almost nothing! Machiavelli advised going to war judiciously, when success was reasonably certain, so as to increase the power and security and wealth of his ...
... abolish war, and move on to the other side of the argument. Here we have – almost nothing! Machiavelli advised going to war judiciously, when success was reasonably certain, so as to increase the power and security and wealth of his ...
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... abolished long ago? War is an obvious threat to our very survival so its abolition is perhaps the greatest challenge we face. Yet – war persists! War loses the argument but continues to threaten us. This breakdown in common sense merits ...
... abolished long ago? War is an obvious threat to our very survival so its abolition is perhaps the greatest challenge we face. Yet – war persists! War loses the argument but continues to threaten us. This breakdown in common sense merits ...
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