Social Welfare and Some Implications of Non-Violence

A new journal has made its appearance. It is called Soldier of Fortune and is devoted to the concerns of professional adventurers --that is, to those who would like to become hired violent fighters in various parts of the world. The journal opens its columns to their advertisements: Ex-marine seeks employment as mercenary, full-time or job contract, prefers South or Central America but all offers considered. Experienced mature fighter/seeks assignment anywhere.... In defending his journal from the charge of encouraging brutality, the founder says: After all, booze is brutal, cars are brutal, sex is brutal. There\u27s a need for guns and explosives, and for adventure in foreign lands .... Sure, some of the guys who buy it are flamboyant, devil-may-care people, and some are brutal, but life is brutal, isn\u27t it? The editorial board is composed of specialist heads of departments: thus there is a knives editor, a terrorism editor, and so on

On Political Obligation and Civil Disobedience

The problems of political obligation and civil disobedience have recently been reemphasized in the civil rights struggle, in student demonstrations of various kinds, and in direct act ion connected with the peace movement. At the same time, men like the late President Kennedy have seemed to say that deliberate disobedience of law could never be countenanced. In the light of controversies such as these, the present paper explores the disquietude about \u27legitimacy of political rule in the Western political tradition; restates and evaluates several of the views that seek to give an account of political obligation; and formulates a possible way of viewing obligation and the conditions under which civil disobedience might be both a right and a duty. No historical political system, the paper argues, has ever been completely legitimate, so that under certain circumstances the possibility, right, and obligation of civil disobedience must be understood to be open

The political theories of modern pacifism

Na port. consta o ano 1944 (como data da serie