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Visions of Peace Justice, international Law and Global security series editor: Howard M. Hensel as the global community enters the 21st century, it is confronted with a wide variety of both traditional and non-traditional challenges to its security and even survival, as well as unprecedented opportunities for global socio-economic development. international law will play a major role as the international community attempts to address these challenges and opportunities while, simultaneously attempting to create a just and secure global order capable of protecting and promoting the common good of the whole of mankind. The ashgate series on Justice, International Law and Global Security is designed to encourage and highlight analytical, scholarly works that focus on the ways in which international law contributes to the management of a wide variety of contemporary challenges and opportunities, while, simultaneously, helping to promote global justice and security. Also in the series Ethics and the Use of Force Just War in Historical Perspective James Turner Johnson isBn: 978-1-4094-1857-3 The Prism of Just War Asian and Western Perspectives on the Legitimate Use of Military Force edited by Howard M. Hensel isBn: 978-0-7546-7510-5 Peace Operations and Restorative Justice Groundwork for Post-conflict Regeneration Peter Reddy isBn: 978-1-4094-2989-0 The Law of War ingrid Detter isBn: 978-1-4094-6495-2 Visions of Peace asia and The West edited by TakasHi sHoGiMen University of Otago, New Zealand and Vicki a. sPenceR University of Otago, New Zealand First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2014 Takashi shogimen and Vicki a. spencer Takashi shogimen and Vicki a. spencer have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: shogimen, Takashi, 1967- Visions of peace : asia and the west / by Takashi shogimen and Vicki a spencer. pages cm. – (Justice, international law and global security) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4094-2870-1 (hardback) 1. Peace–social aspects–asia. 2. Peace–Political aspects–asia. 3. Peace–Religious aspects–asia. i. Ti tle. JZ5584.a69s56 2014 303.6’6095–dc23 2013032329 isBn 9781409428701 (hbk) isBn 9781315548005 (ebk) Contents List of Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer 1 Eirēnē: Ancient Greek Goddess and Concept of Peace 11 Patricia A. Hannah 2 The Dissident Tradition of Christian Pacifism 29 Murray Rae 3 Concept of Peace in Hinduism: A Historical Analysis 47 Kaushik Roy 4 The Confucian Vision of Peace 67 Kam-por Yu 5 A Historical Reflection on Peace and Public Philosophy in Japanese Thought: Prince Shotoku, Ito Jinsai and Yokoi Shonan 85 Shin Chiba 6 Visions of Peace in Medieval European Political Thought 103 Takashi Shogimen 7 Enlightenment Perspectives on War and Peace 119 Bruce Buchan 8 Indigenous Inspiration and Herder’s Peace Woman 139 Vicki A. Spencer 9 Liberal Peace Plans and Cultural Difference: Jeremy Bentham and the Limits of Enlightenment Universalism 161 Katherine Smits Index 177 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Contributors Bruce Buchan is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security and the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on the historical uses and transformations of political concepts. He is currently working on a project on the conceptual history of security and asymmetric warfare in the eighteenth century. His recent publications include The Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government (Pickering and Chatto, 2008) and An Intellectual History of Corruption (co-authored with Lisa Hill, Palgrave, 2013). He has also co-edited two editions of Cultural Studies Review exploring representations of mortality (2011) and another mapping interdisciplinary approaches to the study of noise (2012). Shin Chiba is Professor of Political Thought at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests encompass federalism, radical democracy, ecology and the relationship between religion and politics. His publications in English include Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context (co-edited with George R. Hunsberger and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Eerdmans Publishing, 1995), Toward a Peaceable Future (co-edited with Yoichiro Murakami and Noriko Kawamura, The Foley Institute, 2005), Peace Movements and Pacifism after September 11 (co-edited with Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Edward Elgar, 2008) and Building New Pathways to Peace (co-edited with Noriko Kawamura and Yoichiro Murakami, University of Washington Press, 2011). Patricia A. Hannah is a Senior Lecturer in, and past Chair of, the Department of Classics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests focus on the material and conceptual foundations for the artistic and social culture of Archaic and Classical Greece. Her recent publications have explored the links connecting ancient Greek imagery and popular thought, especially in the area of military theory and practice. She is currently working on a book on the visual representation of soldiers and their equipment in Athenian vase-painting. Murray Rae is Professor of Theology at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Head of the Department of Theology and Religion where he teaches courses in Systematic Theology and Ethics. His research interests include the work of Søren Kierkegaard, theological hermeneutics, Maori engagements with Christianity and theology and the built environment. He is editor of the Journal of Theological Interpretation monograph series and his publications include Mana Maori and viii Visions of Peace Christianity (Huia, 2012), Kierkegaard and Theology (Continuum, 2010), History and Hermeneutics (T&T Clark, 2005) and Kierkegaard’s Vision of the Incarnation (Clarendon Press, 1997). Kaushik Roy is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. He has written and edited 19 books from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Bloomsbury, Ashgate and Brill among others and 45 articles in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Global History, Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Military History, Modern Asian Studies and War in History. His latest publication is Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Takashi Shogimen is Associate Professor in History and Associate Dean (Research) for Humanities at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has previously been Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor in History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests encompass medieval European political thought, comparative political theory and Japanese intellectual history. His publications include Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia (co-edited with Cary J. Nederman, Lexington Books, 2009). Katherine Smits is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She researches and teaches in political theory, specializing in contemporary and historical liberal thought, multiculturalism, feminist political theory and identity politics. She is the author of the books Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Applying Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), as well as several articles on liberal political theory, multiculturalism and national identity. She is currently working on a study of multiculturalist policies and modernity in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Vicki A. Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in political theory in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests encompass early modern European thought and contemporary political theory with a focus on issues relating to language, cultural identities, nationalism and multiculturalism. She is the co-editor (with Paul Corcoran) of Disclosures (Ashgate, 2000) and her most recent publication is Herder’s Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture and Community (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She is currently working on a project in contemporary theory on toleration, humility and recognition. List of Contributors ix Kam-por Yu is currently Director of the General Education Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also a Scientific Associate of the Philosophy Chapter of SIGENET-Health, Sino-Germany Research Network on Public Health and Bioethics, Berlin. His main area of interest is in ethics – including ethical theory and applied ethics, and especially Confucian ethics and bioethics. His latest publications include Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously (State University of New York Press, 2010) and Social Ethics: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012), and a series of papers on the Confucian views on war, peace, harmony, civility and pluralistic values.
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