Major texts on politics and peace research edited by Ulrich Bartosch.
Language: English Original language: German Series: SpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice ; 25Publication details: Springer 2015 Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmISBN: 9783319133072Other title: Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker.:Major texts in politics and peace research| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book-Circulating
|
Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | JC131. V669459 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B013487 |
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I Introduction by Ulrich Bartosch
1 “We Have to Eliminate the Institution of War!”—Introduction
by the Editor to Selected Political Texts
of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ........................ 3
Part II Major Texts on
6 Insecure Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.1 Peace and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.2 Conditions of Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.2.1 The Instability of the Technical World . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.2.2 Feeding the World as a Task of Domestic
World Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.2.3 Ethics and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.3 Truth and Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.3.1 The Peace of Reason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.3.2 The Peace of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6.3.3 The Peace of the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.4 Making Peace Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.4.1 Peace in Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.4.2 Active Domestic World Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6.4.3 The Ethics of Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7 The Consequences of Atomic Warfare as Reason
for Its Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.1.1 Goal and Method of Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.2 Consequences of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.3 War Prevention Through Deterrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7.4 Prevention of War in the Field of Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
8 Anthropology of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.1 On the Theory of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.2 What Is Power? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
9 The Real Presence of War Risk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
9.1 On Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
9.2 Economic Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
9.3 Military Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
9.4 Mental Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
9.5 Retrospective on the Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
9.5.1 The Concept of Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
9.5.2 Crises of the Present Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
9.5.3 Potential for Crises by Advanced Civilization. . . . . . . 103
9.5.4 Apocalyptics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
9.5.5 Perception and Grounds for the Present Crisis . . . . . . 104
10 Theses [For a Convocation for Justice, Peace
and Preservation of Creation] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.1 Naming the Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
10.2 Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
xiv Contents
10.3 Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.4 Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
10.5 The Time Is Ripe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
11 No Limits on Active Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
11.1 Closing Address at the European Ecumenical
Convention for Peace in Justice Basel in May 1989 . . . . . . . . 111
12 The Todays Tasks for Tomorrows Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
12.1 Man and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
12.2 Poverty and Wealth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
12.3 War and Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
12.4 Materialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
12.5 What May We Hope for?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
13 Bridging into the Human Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Federation of German Scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Udo Keller Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
About the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
About the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear armament of the German armed forces (1957). Furthermore, he published a study on the inability to defend Germany (1971) that was instrumental in the debate on defensive defense since the mid 1970s. He wrote on war and peace, peace and truth, policy implications of nuclear energy, on ethical issues of modern strategy, on consequences of war and war prevention and on the theory of power. He coined the term “world domestic policy” which still covers a valid theory for political, institutional secured world peace in the atomic age.