In this chapter I seek to unravel how Mexico, the 'other pacifist', perceives the immense reality of India's 'violent contrasts', in the words of Octavio Paz, between pacifism and Third World camaraderie on the one hand, and a quest for nuclear weapons and great-power status on the ...
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family....
An extreme stance, considering the current situation, Lucius thought these were not times for a pacifist, but he never said a thing. Lucius found Katana crying at the far end of the cave. “What’s the use, Lucius?” she said. “We cannot lose hope, Katana. Mom and Dad would di...
We’re now equipped with some strategies for arguing against a pacifist interpretation of Jesus’ instruction to “turn the other cheek.” If you’re interested in the philosophical principles that ground legitimate self-defense, see my article, “How far can a Christian go in self-defense?” ...
An update on my previous post. To recap, I thought I’d found two independent sources for the legend that on 21 February 1942, in the middle of the ‘cable war’ with Churchill about where returning Australian troops were to be sent, John Curtin went missing and, in the words of Peter...
s name was Stawni. My father, Sylvester Kowalski, related that his mother’s sister, Constance, was secretary to Eugene Debs during World War I. Debs was an American Socialist leader, pacifist, labor organizer and Socialist candidate for US president five times. During World War I, Debs was...
but in the meantime I wanted to share a small piece from my dissertation that, I think, expresses why — despite personally holding more or less pacifist views — I sympathize to a great degree with those for whom antifa militancy feels like the only correct response to a rising white supre...
It’s easy for them to cooperate and communicate with others, given their pacifistic natures. They prefer that their work involves patterns and concepts, rather than put emphasis on details. INFPs bring a flexible attitude to the workplace and can sometimes rebel against strict rules, while INF...
The Task of translation was great, and often because of its suitability Taoist language was used, or otherwise some rather unintelligible phonetic attempts to render Sanskrit words. But Buddhism described itself as a path or Tao, it had its immortal being the Buddha, i...
You said they were black but that man was tan.The boy doesn’t know there is far more to such words than their literal meaning.(Similarly, Fielding in ‘A Passage of India’causes outrage among his fellow whites by his witticism that there are really no “white” people.) Even as Chris...