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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Pacifism"”.
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The Developmental Stages of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: From Pacifism to a Justification of Force
Simone Weil had a short but distinguished career as a French intellectual. Writing mainly between the two European wars of the twentieth century, Weil is more widely accredited for her later spiritual work. This thesis seeks instead to discuss the political aspect of Weil’s writing so that her …
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… Quakerism and its practical applications in pacifism, from a different viewpoint than the empirical, individualistic one today. The whole research is conducted by using the concept of self as the central axis for analysis. By analysing Barclay’s theology and his peace testimony, and placing …
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God of Toil
… his violent ways in order to live a life of pacifism and service. When forced back into service, he faces the reverberations of the atrocities he committed in his youth. In failing to right them despite his most earnest efforts, he confronts the potential of his own irredeemability.
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Living the bomb: Martin Amis's nuclear fiction
… philosophy is linked with feminism: both espouse pacifism and a reinventing of gender roles in a post-nuclear world.
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The Society of Friends in Indiana during the Civil War
… historical writing has focused upon Friends' pacifism refusal to perform military service and the suffering they received as a result. Also mentioned in the historical literature concerning the Society is the benevolent work of Friends for the Blacks, both during and after the war, and in …
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Az átalakuló normák hatása a japán biztonságpolitikára. Yoshidától az Abe-doktrínáig- az antimilitarista normától a proaktív pacifizmusig = Japan’s Security Policy from the Yoshida to Abe-doctrine: The Influence of Changing Norms from the Antimilitarism to the Proactive Pacifism
Az értekezés alapvető kutatási kérdése az volt, hogyan változott Japán biztonságpolitikája a XX. század második felétől kezdve a XXI. század elejéig, azaz milyen belső és külső tényezők vezettek ahhoz, hogy a II. világháborút követően beágyazódott merev antimilitarista norma századunk első felére …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a program of peace. By approaching the Spanish Civil War as a pivotal site of …
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Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”
… Theatre's founding philosophies of anarchism and pacifism. The visual implications of these findings are discussed in the theatre's advertising campaign for a 1971 lecture tour titled, "Theatre and the Revolution". Although a project engaged in marketing revolutionary ideas, these posters drew …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
… the characteristics of their Quakerism, pacifism and wider political and personal life, as well as the connections between them. In contrast to O’Donnell’s view that most radical Victorian Quaker women left Quakerism to follow their political pursuits with like-minded friends outside of …
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When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the Ethics of Contemporary Conflict
… positions on war (e.g., just war theory and pacifism) to the domain of everyday life and the ways that local Christians theologically frame and practically reason through conflict. I explore the 1996-1997 Rwandan refugee crisis through the voice of a Catholic survivor, Marie Béatrice Umutesi, …
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The Sheffield peace movement 1934-1940.
… of war, while Nonconformism dominated the city's pacifism. Despite the strength of both these party political and religious influences, however, the League of Nations Union led the Sheffield movement during two key periods. The growth of the <i>pacificist</i> consensus, which at a national level …
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Over the Desolation of Wildness Caresses the April Breeze
… serves as an artistic response to the theme of pacifism, drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese philosophy and the ongoing chaos caused by contemporary international conflicts. This work progresses through five movements, structured in an arch form that journeys from disturbing undercurrents …
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Nursing as social responsibility: implications for democracy from the life perspective of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956)
… caring, collaboration, social responsibility, pacifism, and the holistic well-being of all individuals. This historiography also explores Dock's relentless social activism for the construction of a 'new ideal' of society and democracy. This study aims to empower nurse educators and practicing …
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Hidden Black and Brown Bridges: The Mutual Influences of Dr. Martin Luther King and Hispanic Theologian Dr. Justo González
… González were theologians and both of them chose pacifism in light of the examples of their fathers. This process of development was explored using several oral interviews with Dr. González. In the existing literature on liberation theology, Latino/a Studies, and coalitions between the black and …
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Continuity and Change in German Security Policy: the Pivotal Role of Unification
… At home, Germany must overcome decades-old pacifism that has been internalized and now confronts the goal of an expanded international role for the Federal Republic. Legal barriers have been removed, but psychological and historical hurdles remain. Germany will continue to foster a strong …
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The Role of Women in High Leadership Positions in Minimizing or Preventing Interstate Conflict and War
… crises. It is impossible to prove that female pacifism creates a less conflicted system. However, it does contribute to the notion that a women-only leadership would be just as conflicted as the existing patriarchal institutions, albeit in a different manner. The study conducted a desk study …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… Woolf's increasing commitment to feminism and pacifism emphasizes the ability of the verbal half of this tension to displace entrenched patriarchal and fascistic imagery, while Lewis's increasing commitment to misogyny and fascism emphasizes the ability of the visual half of this tension to …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… for countering internationalism, socialism, and pacifism that eradicated the very foundation of national sovereignty in antagonism or ‘dualism’. He developed a potentially limitless notion of ‘the popular’ or ‘the people’, which exceeded liberal democracy and centred on the Nazi Volk state. Next, …
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Star Spangled Saints: Ritual Practices that Legitimate War and Violence in the American Church
… surpassed previously held nuanced positions of pacifism, just-war, and Christian Realism into a confluence of conservative Christian theology and American nationalism because of the American culture in which it is embedded. I refer to this typology as “church militant.” In addition, ritual …
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