Resources
Étienne de la Boétie: Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
In a 1963 anthology, The Quiet Battle: Writings on the Theory and Practice of Non-violent Resistance (paperback by Beacon, 1968), edited and introduced by Mulford Quickert Sibley, Étienne de la Boétie receives attention as the first modern voice of nonviolence. An English translation of Boétie’s Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1548) is offered [...]
Peace Readings Summer '08
A dozen reviews of books for peace seekers in the July-August 2008 Summer Reading Issue of Peacework Magazine. See for example a review of Francis Boyle’s latest appeal for civil resistance, and a reading of Cormac McCarthy’s dead center narrative about what will happen if we don’t stop the madness before the nuclear bombs [...]
The Lost Pyramids of Caral
“The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology – a [...]
Philosophy at the World Conference: A Discussion
Minutes: The Conference of Philosophical Societies (CoPS) met to discuss “Philosophical Themes of World Congresses of Philosophy: What Impact?” at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Bristol room, 6.30-9.30pm, December 27, 2007 during the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
Speakers:
John Abbarno, President, CoPS
George F. McLean, Vice President, CoPS, Sec.-Treas. The Council [...]
Lt. Watada’s Initial Statement of Conscience
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
June 7, 2006
by Lt. Ehren Watada
Family, friends, members of the religious community, members of the press, and my fellow Americans—thank you for coming today.
My name is Ehren Watada. I am a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and I have served for 3 years. [...]