Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World

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This volume is meant for readers to gain a deeper grasp of the challenges, unique to the present age, for realizing a genuinely peaceful order as well as to consider thoughtful proposals for meeting these challenges. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World Bibliography Chapter 2 Democracy and Peace: Is Democracy Good for Peace? 1 Tyranny of Majority 2 Democracy and Justice 3 Hyperpartisanship and Affective Polarization 4 Suggestions 5 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 3 In Search of Justice through Dialogue: Discourse Ethics and Virtue Ethics 1 Proceduralism: Monological and Dialogical 1.1 Rawls’s Theory of Procedural Justice 1.2 Monological and Dialogical Approaches to Matters of Justice 2 Habermas on Justice: Moral and Political 2.1 Moral and Ethical-Political Discourse 2.2 Justice and Solidarity 2.3 Political Justice 2.4 Proceduralist Paradigm of Law 3 Fred Dallmayr’s “Bifocal” Conception of Justice and Virtue Ethics 3.1 A “Bifocal” Conception of Justice 3.2 Toward Post-liberal Paradigm: Regaining Virtue Ethics and Justice 3.3 Aiming at the “Good Life” with and for Others in Just Institutions 3.4 Regaining the High Ethical and Spiritual Meaning of Justice 3.5 Toward a Global Justice Bibliography Chapter 4 A Personal Approach to Engaging with Others: Applying Levinasian Insights to Intercultural Community Initiatives 1 Development 2 The Tandana Foundation 3 First-Person Orientation 4 Engaging with Others 5 Moral Obligations 6 Respect 7 Responsibility 8 Respectful, Responsible Intercultural Relationships 9 Enriching Approaches to Collective Work with Personal Actions, Values, and Experiences Bibliography Chapter 5 The Economic Consequences of Peace and Nationalism: Revisiting John Maynard Keynes 1 Introduction 2 Nationalism One Hundred Years On 3 John Maynard Keynes and His Argument of the Economic Consequences of Peace 4 Resurgent Nationalism Bibliography Chapter 6 The Virtue of the Chickadee, or Ethics for the End of the World: Chief Plenty Coups, Judith Butler, and Anti-genocidal Ethics 1 Introduction 2 Precarious Life 3 Jonathan Lear's Reading 4 The Tomb of the Unknowns 5 The Chief’s Dream 6 The Virtue of the Chickadee 7 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 7 Transforming Contradictions: Dialectics of Nonviolence in ‘Martin and Mao’ 1 Logics of Economic Justice 2 Dialectics of Positive Peace 3 Mao’s Dialectical Distinctions 4 King’s Dialectics of Nonviolence 5 Transforming Contradictions Bibliography Chapter 8 The Lies of the Land: Post-truth, the Erosion of Democracy, and the Challenge for Positive Peace 1 Introduction 2 The Era of Post-truth: Truth Isn’t Truth 2.1 Science Denial: “Doubt Is Our Product” 2.2 Fake News 2.3 Propaganda 2.4 Truth Isn’t Truth in American Politics 3 The Erosion of Democracy 3.1 A Litmus Test for Autocrats 3.2 Undermining the Soft Guardrails of Democracy 4 The Challenge for Positive Peace and Some Hope Bibliography Chapter 9 Tolerating the Intolerable—A Method to Prevent Radicalization 1 Radicalization: What It Is and How It Happens 1.1 Towards a Workable Definition 1.2 Changing How We View Radicalization 2 Harm 2.1 Harm in the Liberal, Democratic State 3 Toleration, What Is It Good For? 3.1 What Is Toleration? 3.2 What Is the Relationship between Toleration and Harm? 4 Tying Together Toleration and Radicalization: A New Approach to the Prevention of Radicalization 5 Against Toleration and “Defense of Democracy” 6 What Are the Next Steps? Bibliography Chapter 10 Gun Violence, Honor, and Inequality in America Bibliography Chapter 11 Kant’s Rational Freedom: Positive and Negative Peace 1 Kant’s Rational Freedom: Positive and Negative Peace 2 Negative and Positive Peace 3 Kant’s Peace Project 4 Kantian Autonomy and Positive Peace 5 Concluding Thoughts Bibliography Chapter 12 Work Justice for People with Mental Illness: “A Useful Resource” 1 Introduction 2 The Value of Work 2.1 Personal Development 2.2 Purpose 2.3 Self-Respect and Self-Esteem 2.4 Community Membership 2.5 Work as an Aspect of Recovery 3 Problems with the Way Work Is Valued 3.1 The Role That Work Plays in a Person’s Life 3.2 The Value of Economic Norms 3.3 The Value of Economic Independence 4 Conclusion: Re-valuing Work and Valuing Contributions beyond Work Bibliography Chapter 13 Wealth, Violence, and (In)Justice: Refugees, Robin Hood, and Resistance 1 Standard Responses 2 The Term and Concept ‘Violence’ 3 What Is Violence? 4 Has Violence Occurred? 5 Implications for Justice Bibliography Chapter 14 The Capitalist Peace and Pacific Capitalism 1 History of the Capitalist Peace Theory 2 Some Skeptical Questions 3 Positive Peace and the Unity of Means and Ends 4 Which Capitalism Is Peaceful? 5 Causal Complexity and the Normative Agenda 6 Unity of Means and Ends in Interventions 7 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 15 Discourse That Advances Economic Democracy 1 Introduction 1.1 My Previous Work on Capitalism and Globalization and on Language and Violence 1.2 Democracy as a Shared Value 2 Memes and Metaphors That Thwart Social Justice Discourse 2.1 Negative Impacts of Some Memes and Metaphors 2.2 Metaphors that Connect with Shared Values 3 Current Work on Economic Democracy 3.1 Actual Models and Practices of Economic Democracy 3.2 Tom Malleson on Contemporary Philosophical Positions 3.3 David Schweickart on the Central Value of Feminism 4 Care Ethics in Carol Gilligan, Alison Jaggar, and Joan Tronto 4.1 Carol Gilligan: Beyond Patriarchy to Care Ethics as Human Ethics 4.2 Alison Jaggar on Gender and Global Justice 4.3 Joan Tronto on the Scope of Care and Nurturance 5 Conclusion Bibliography Index