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De Tranquillitate Animi (On the tranquility of the mind / on peace of mind) is a Latin work by the Stoic philosopher Seneca (4 BC–65 AD). The dialogue concerns the state of mind of Seneca's friend Annaeus Serenus, and how to cure Serenus of anxiety , worry and disgust with life.
Peace psychological research can be analytically (research on peace) or normatively (research for peace) oriented. Regardless of its analytical or normative orientation, peace psychological research mainly deals with the psychological aspects of the formation, escalation, reduction, and resolution of conflicts (including war), the psychosocial conditions conducive or detrimental to a ...
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf ) is a 1795 book authored by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant . [ 1 ] In the book, Kant advances ideas that have subsequently been associated with democratic peace , commercial peace , and institutional peace .
Peace dove statue in Lomé, Togo, Africa. The dove and the olive branch are the most common symbols associated with peace. [1] Statue of Eirene, goddess of peace in ancient Greek religion, with the infant Plutus. Peace is a state of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence.
After stating that "the creation of the United Nations system itself, based upon universally shared values and goals, has been a major act towards transformation from a culture of war and violence to a culture of peace and non-violence", the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 52/13 of 20 November 1997, requested UNESCO to submit to its next session a draft declaration and programme of ...
Bust of Epicurus.Achieving ataraxia is an important goal in Epicurean philosophy.. In Ancient Greek philosophy, ataraxia (Greek: ἀταραξία, from ἀ-indicating negation or absence and ταραχ-tarach-' to disturb, trouble ' with the abstract noun suffix -ία), generally translated as ' unperturbedness ', ' imperturbability ', ' equanimity ', or ' tranquility ', [1] is a lucid state ...
Regarding legal discourse on the wrongful enslavement of Muslims in West Africa, Hall (2018) states: [15] The earliest mention of the issue of the wrongful enslavement of Muslims in a text written in West Africa is in Muhammad ‘Abd al-Karim al-Magili's replies to Askia Muhammad, ruler of the Songhay Empire, written in 1498. In it, al-Magili ...
The greatest peace is the eventual end goal of the lesser peace and is envisioned as a time of spiritual and social unity – a time when the peoples of the world genuinely identify with and care for one another, rather than simply tolerating one other's existence.