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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 4 (1990) > Articles |
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Early Advocates of Lasting World Peace: Utopians or Realists? [Abstract]
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December 2, 1990
This article reexamines the works of Erasmus, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant,
and other pacifists who have advocated collective societal efforts toward a
lasting world peace. In contrast to Thucydides' (Realist) view of the
inevitability of war due to intrinsic human nature, the author presents the
early Christian arguments of pacifism grounded in morality and religion,
including the "just-war" views of Augustine and Sir Thomas Aquinas, who believed
that war fought for self-defense, or other "justifiable" purposes, was morally
and religiously grounded in efforts to punish wrongdoings and "convert
unbelievers." Is the state of peace a natural one or one that must be achieved
through practical steps within moral constraints by leaders of nations and their
citizens? Realist thinkers who once rejected, on strictly normative grounds, the
moral claims of the possibility of a lasting world peace now take the strategic
position that the goal of attaining lasting world peace is clearly worth
striving for, "however utopian it seemed when first advocated."
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