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The war−party is assuredly right in affirming and reaffirming that the martial virtues, although originally gain by the race through war, are absolute and permanent human goods. Patriotic pride and ambition in their military form are, after all, only specifications of a more general competitive passion.
Aug 3, 2015 · In an incredible essay, “The Moral Equivalent of War,” first delivered as a talk at Stanford and later published in 1910, the year of his death, James observes that though everyone would prefer to have the peace issuing forth after the Civil War almost no one would want to eradicate from the human record the bloodiest war to have taken place on American soil, a war pitting brother against ...
- William James
- 1910
that James’ ‘The Moral Equivalent of War’ is also about peace as a social goal with a direct method to achieve elements of ‘positive peace.’ War: Violence and Virtus Definitions of war vary and often directly or indirectly reflect the political or philosophical background of the author. Nevertheless, most descriptions of war include ...
Abstract. In 1910, as the world’s great powers were gearing up for a war with unprecedented destructive potential, the philosopher and psychologist William James set forth his proposals for a re-energized ‘war on war.’ 2 Merely exposing war’s evils, he held, and warning of its tendency to brutalize and corrupt participants, would do ...
- Sissela Bok
- 1989
Jan 8, 2019 · Anything War Can Do, Peace Can Do Better. William James’ idea of the need to create a moral equivalent of war first struck me, decades ago, when I read about it, as about as sensible an idea as inventing a new way to punch yourself in the face. This was not purely because times have changed, because weapons have become more powerful, because ...
t in divided societies.11 James’s world is not ours. “The Moral Equivalent of War” is the artifact of an elite antiwar movement animated by a faith in civilizational progress towards perpetual. peace that a century of total wars has disabused us of. The essay’s canonization in the archive of American antiwar writing has created an ...
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Describes the personal context of William James's pioneering article, "The Moral Equivalent of War," and focuses on the heroic and courageous aspects of military action that James admired. James saw heroism as the antidote to boredom, doubt, passivity, depression, pessimism, and neurasthenia, possibly in an attempt to resolve his own ambivalence. James (as did his cohorts) struggled with doubt ...
