RT Article
T1 Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum! On the Indispensable Pitfalls in the Piecemeal Engineering of Peace
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 31
IS 2
SP 229
OP 238
A1 Zimmerli, Walther Ch. 1945-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1576550400
AB The relation between peace-oriented politics and theology will be discussed from a philosophical point of view by approaching the problem in five steps. In a first step, I will focus on logic as one of the most powerful and simultaneously misleading forces in our thinking. Utilising the results of this step will, secondly, enable a clarification of the misunderstanding implied in an idea such as eternal peace. Thirdly, the article will unveil the paradoxical character of violence inherent in the notion of political power as well as the antinomy of war and peace. This will open the space for accepting second-best solutions. In so doing at least some of the problems implied in any philosophical contribution to a political theology of pacifism may be solved.
K1 Kant
K1 Pacifism
K1 Peace
K1 Political Theology
K1 Religious Ethics
K1 religious wars
K1 Deterrence
K1 eternal peace
K1 parasitic pacifism
K1 pragmatic pacifism
K1 Violence
DO 10.1177/0953946817749900