Category: CPP Newsletter Online
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CfP: CPP at Pacific APP
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006) Call for Presentations Concerned Philosophers for Peace Symposium at Pacific APA San Francisco April 3-8 Ethics of Self-Defense The realization that virtually every adversary claims to act in self-defense raises numerous possibilities for philosophical analysis. These possibilities include the following problematics: What is the…
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Book: Moral Vision by Duane Cady
Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26.2 (Fall 2006) Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking by Duane L. Cady Rowman & Littlefield $21.95 paper ISBN 0-7425-4494-X May, 2005 134pp “A deeply felt, wonderfully clear and heartening book. MORAL VISION reflects decades of writing and teaching about theories of war by a…
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Archive Project
We are beginning to archive previous CPP newsletters, beginning with Volume 11. This is an eerie exercise, since it begins with articles written during the first Bush war on Iraq. You may access the archive of newsletter articles at the right column menu via the year of publication (1991) or volume number (11.1 and 11.2).
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Hiroshima and Recent Nuclear Policies by Joseph C. Kunkel
Kunkel, Joseph C., “Hiroshima and Recent Nuclear Policies,” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006). August 6 is a day to remember the 100,000 innocent victims of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Three days later the U.S. bombed Nagasaki. I believe we best pay homage to these…
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Perversions of Democracy by Wendy Hamblet
Hamblet, Wendy, “Perversions of Democracy and the Need for Global Federalism,” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (2006) “Most people are bad judges in their own case.” Aristotle (Politics. 1280a15-16) 1. The Problem of Democracy When one looks across the globe today, a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and…
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On World Federation by Ronald J. Glossop
Glossup, Ronald J., “On World Federation,” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006). At the global level, a democratic world federation would provide a way of using deliberation to deal with global problems such as (1) putting an end to war and the availability of increasingly deadly weapons, (2)…
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Cooperative Capitalism by J.W. Smith
Smith, J.W., “Cooperative Capitalism: The Missing ‘Human Face’ of Economics,” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006). Thank you professor Martin for those kind words and thank you for the opportunity to speak to your fine audience. Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed a pleasure to talk…
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Buying Moral Victory by Ruth Lucier
Lucier, Ruth, “Buying Moral Victory: Review of P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2003),” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006). I grew up hearing about the Military Industrial Complex in a home with parents who believed that almost all wars…
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Can Peace be Taught? by Greg Moses
Moses, Greg, “A Review of Robert L Holmes and Barry L. Gan, Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, 2nd Ed.(Long Grove, Ill: Waveland Press, 2005),” Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006) In this much expanded second edition, new co-editor Barry L. Gan joins Robert L. Holmes to produce a…
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There are No Words by Tom Fox
Posted in the Newsletter of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace Vol. 26 (Spring – Summer 2006) “The ongoing difficulties faced by Fallujans are so great that words fail to properly express it.” Words from a cleric in Fallujah as he tried to explain the litany of ills that continue to afflict his city one year…