Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World

359 Pages·2022·3.484 MB·English

by  Sanjay Lal (editor)

Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World
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Peaceful Approaches for

a More Peaceful World
Edited by
Sanjay Lal
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Contents

N otes on Contributors vii
1 I ntroduction
Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World 1
Sanjay Lal
2 D emocracy and Peace
Is Democracy Good for Peace? 8
Fuat Gürsözlü
3 I n Search of Justice through Dialogue
Discourse Ethics and Virtue Ethics 30
Edward V. Demenchonok
4 A Personal Approach to Engaging with Others
Applying Levinasian Insights to Intercultural Community Initiatives 80
Anna Taft
5 T he Economic Consequences of Peace and Nationalism
Revisiting John Maynard Keynes 106
Andrew Fitz- Gibbon
6 T he Virtue of the Chickadee, or Ethics for the End of the World
Chief Plenty Coups, Judith Butler, and Anti- genocidal Ethics 125
Will Barnes
7 T ransforming Contradictions
Dialectics of Nonviolence in ‘Martin and Mao’ 143
Greg Moses
8 T he Lies of the Land
Post- truth, the Erosion of Democracy, and the Challenge for Positive
Peace 170
Paula Smithka
9 T olerating the Intolerable— A Method to Prevent Radicalization 196
Hunter Cantrell
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10 G un Violence, Honor, and Inequality in America 216
Robert Paul Churchill
11 K ant’s Rational Freedom
Positive and Negative Peace 230
Casey Rentmeester
12 W ork Justice for People with Mental Illness
“A Useful Resource” 239
Abigail Gosselin
13 W ealth, Violence, and (In)Justice
Refugees, Robin Hood, and Resistance 270
Jennifer Kling
14 T he Capitalist Peace and Pacific Capitalism 289
Andrew Fiala
15 D iscourse That Advances Economic Democracy 310
William Gay
I ndex 329
Notes on Contributors

Will Barnes
works with transformative philosophy from ancient through to contemporary
cross- cultural settings. He has taught at 6 universities across three continents.
His publications and research draw on Asian, American, and European reli-
gion, philosophy, art, and literature. His focus is on 20th Century Continental
Philosophy, especially Ethical, Social, and Political Philosophy as well as
Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Non- Western Philosophy, particularly
Ethics, Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Epistemology in the Indo- Tibetan
Buddhist tradition. His research focuses on the intersection between the social
and the psychic as they relate to violence and peace. He is the author of A
Critique of Liberal Cynicism (forthcoming) which diagnoses and proposing a
cure for a trauma- born rejection of liberal and progressive political values in
popular and academic “left” culture. He currently teaches at The University of
New Mexico, and New Mexico Highlands University.
Captain Hunter Cantrell
is an officer in the United States Army, assigned to the Department of English
and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
He graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia with a ma in
Philosophy. His primary interests include the ethics of emerging technology
(primarily autonomous weapons systems), the ethics of toleration, and polit-
ical philosophy (broadly construed). All of Captain Cantrell’s opinions are his
alone and do not represent the United States Military Academy, the United
States Army, nor the Department of Defense.
Robert Paul Churchill
served as Romeo Elton Professor of Moral and Natural Philosophy at George
Washington University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of
Philosophy, and Director of the Peace Studies Program. His published books
include Becoming Logical; Democracy, Social Values and Public Policy (ed.); The
Ethics of Liberal Democracy (ed.); Human Rights and Global Diversity; and most
recently, Women in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing, from
Oxford University Press. He is also author of many articles and books chapters
and is presently at work on two books: one on civil disobedience in a liberal
democracy, and the other a defense of universal human rights that draws on
cognitive science as well as evolutionary theory.
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Edward V. Demenchonok
is a Professor of Foreign Languages and Philosophy at Fort Valley State
University, USA. He is listed in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century.
His numerous books and articles are in the fields of the philosophy of cul-
ture, political philosophy, and ethics. His recent publications include: The
Quest for Change: From Domination to Dialogue (2016); “Philosophy of Hope”
in Cosmopolitan Civility: Global- Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr (2020);
“Michel Foucault’s Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New
Philosophical Anthropology” in Peace, Culture, and Violence (2018); “Zur Debatte
über kulturelle Diversität und Interkulturalität in den USA und Kanada” in Zur
Geschichte und Entwicklung der Interkulturellen Philosophie (2015). He edited
and contributed to A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope (with
Fred Dallmayr, 2017); Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity
(2016); Philosophy after Hiroshima (2010); Between Global Violence and Ethics of
Peace: Philosophical Perspectives (2009).
Andrew Fiala
is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at California
State University, Fresno. Recent work includes: Seeking Common Ground: A
Theist/ Atheist Dialogue (2021— with Peter Admirand), Nonviolence: A Quick
Immersion (2020), and Transformative Pacifism (2018). Fiala is co-a uthor of a
widely used textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with co- author
Barbara MacKinnon (Cengage), now in its 9th edition. Fiala is a past President
of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. He writes a weekly column on religion,
politics, and ethics for the Fresno Bee. For more information: www.andrewfiala
.com.
Andrew Fitz- Gibbon
is a suny Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Chair
of the Philosophy Department at the State University of New York College at
Cortland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He earned his PhD from
Newcastle University, United Kingdom. His academic interests are in the areas
of ethics, nonviolence, conflict resolution, pluralism and pragmatism. He is
the author, co- author, or editor of fifteen books, numerous book chapters, and
articles in peer- reviewed journals such as Social Philosophy Today, The Journal
for Peace and Justice Studies, The Acorn, and Philosophical Practice. He is an
Associate Editor, Brill Academic Publishers, where he edits the vibs Social
Philosophy Series. He is a fellow of the American Philosophical Practitioners
Association, certified in client counseling. He is abbot of the Lindisfarne
Notes on Contributors ix
Community, a secular monastic order exploring the borders of interfaith
spirituality.
William Gay
is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. Within Concerned Philosophers for Peace (cpp), he has served
as President (1993), Executive Director (1997–1 999), Editor of Concerned
Philosophers for Peace Newsletter (1987– 2002), and Editor of cpp’s book series
“Philosophy of Peace” (2002–2 012). He has published seven books— The Nuclear
Arms Race (1987), On the Eve of the 21st Century (1994), Capitalism with a Human
Face (1996), Global Studies Encyclopedia (2003), Democracy and the Quest for
Justice (2004), Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary (2014), and Between Past
Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization (2016)—a nd over 100 journal arti-
cles and book chapters on issues of violence, war, peace, and justice from the
perspectives of philosophy of language and political philosophy. He also serves
on the editorial boards of the journals Philosophy and Social Criticism, The Age
of Globalization, Journal of Globalization Studies, and The Acorn.
Abigail Gosselin
is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Regis University in Denver,
Colorado. She is the author of Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s
Perspective (mit Press, forthcoming), Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing
Agency through Social Interaction (McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2021), and
Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility (Lexington, 2009). In addition,
she has published numerous papers in social philosophy, including papers on
mental illness stigma, injustices in the medicalization of mental disorders, the
ethics of philosophizing from first person experience, narrative ethics, and
human rights. Dr. Gosselin teaches an array of courses in social philosophy.
She has served as chair of her department and has served on many college
committees, including the Committee on Rank and Tenure.
Fuat Gürsözlü
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He has
written extensively on democracy, peace, and pluralism. He is the editor
of Peace, Culture, and Violence (Brill, 2018). Currently, he is completing a book
manuscript on agonistic democracy with a particular focus on how the agonis-
tic perspective changes the way we understand some key elements of democ-
racy such as protest, parties, and peace.
x Notes on Contributors
Jennifer Kling
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal
Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses
on moral and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, self-
and other- defense, international relations, protest, and feminism. She is the
author of War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility (Lexington, 2019),
as well as numerous articles, and is also the Executive Director of Concerned
Philosophers for Peace (cpp), the largest, most active organization of profes-
sional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of
war and prospects for peace.
Sanjay Lal
is senior lecturer of philosophy at Clayton State University in Morrow, ga. He
is also treasurer of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace and an associate edi-
tor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. In addition
to the book Gandhi’s Thought and Liberal Democracy (Lexington, 2019), Lal has
published many articles related to non- violence and peace philosophy. His
work has appeared in, among other journals, Asian Philosophy, Philosophy in
the Contemporary World, and The Heythrop Journal.
Greg Moses
is editor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence and
author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy
of Nonviolence. He has also authored journal articles or book chapters on the
peace philosophies of Charles Peirce, Jane Addams, Alain Locke, and James
Farmer, Sr. He has been honored by Philosophy Born of Struggle with the
William R. Jones award for lifetime contributions to Africana Philosophy. He
teaches nonviolence philosophy at Texas State University.
Casey Rentmeester
is the Director of General Education and Associate Professor of Philosophy
at Bellin College in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. He is author of the book
Heidegger and the Environment (2016), co- editor of the book Heidegger and
Music (2021), and author of numerous peer-r eviewed articles and book chap-
ters on environmental philosophy, medical ethics, and social and political phi-
losophy. He lives with his wife and three children in De Pere, Wisconsin, one of
whom is named Amelia Irene, meaning “work for peace.”