Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006)
KULTGEN, John and Mary LENZI, Eds. Value Inquiry Book Series 181: Philosophy of Peace (Amsterdam, New York: 2006) XXIII, 278 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2060-3 ; 90-420-2060-1. € 60 / US$ 75.
This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.
CONTENTS
Judith PRESLER: Editorial Foreword
John KULTGEN: Preface
John KULTGEN and Mary LENZI: Acknowledgments
Donald A.WELLS, Ronald J. GLOSSOP, Beth J.SINGER, and Mary LENZI: Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?
Part One: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse
Ron HIRSCHBEIN and Jason SUPPUS: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West ’s Explication of Inner-City Nihilism
Howard HARRIOTT: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy
Edward SANKOWSKI: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community
Gilburt GOFFSTEIN: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism
Jerald RICHARDS: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy
Part Two: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes
William C. GAY: Democracy in Market Economies
Thomas CHRISTIANO: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property
Beth J. SINGER: Rights and Affirmative Action
Judith PRESLER: The Procedural Republic
Matthew SILLIMAN: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative
Part Three: Democracy and Routes to Peace
Donald A.WELLS: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury
Brian LUKE: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions
Ali ERRISHI: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy
Andrew KELLEY: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism
Gregory P. FIELDS: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace
Mary LENZI: Philosophers, Peace, and Problems for Democracy
Bibliography
Index
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