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The essay was written after the outbreak of the Second World War at a time when many of Orwell's circle had to reconsider their pacifist views. Orwell was eleven when the First World War broke out. Some of his recollections quoted in the essay he used in the novel Coming Up for Air published in 1939.
Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...
Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" (Resistance to Civil Government) was named as an influence by Leo Tolstoy, Martin Buber, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. due to its advocacy of nonviolent resistance. [1] According to the Peace Pledge Union of Britain, it was also the main precedent for anarcho-pacifism. [1]
Student assignments – students that edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment should improve Wikipedia without any serious violations of content norms. Snowball clause – you should use common sense and not follow a process for the sake of it; but, when in doubt, allow discussions to take place.
Christopher Mitchell described the book as "the clearest (and in many senses the most honest) exposition of the objectivist position" in peace studies. [12] Reviewing the book in Social Science Quarterly, Larry D. Adams described Curle's practical rather than scholarly approach as the book's greatest strength or weakness, depending on the reader's disposition, and suggested that policymakers ...
The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free ...
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) – German student and Christian pacifist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – German-French activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon testing whose speeches were published as Peace or Atomic War ; co-founder of The Committee for a ...
Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals, the ...