The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/ACORN20192228
Steven Steyl
{"title":"What Can Virtue Ethics Offer Pacifists","authors":"Steven Steyl","doi":"10.5840/ACORN20192228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN20192228","url":null,"abstract":"Any comprehensive introduction to military ethics will reference Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and Aquinas. Whatever else you may be told about these thinkers, one or another of them will almost always be credited with founding military ethics as a distinct subfield of moral philosophy. What is less often acknowledged in introductory texts, and indeed in the literature more broadly, is the popularity of virtue among these fathers of military ethics. All of these thinkers, in fact, have been just as influential in the virtue ethical tradition, and their military ethics are in large part distilled from that normative framework.","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133444183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/ACORN2018181/213
Walter J. Kendall
{"title":"Terrestrial: Neither Global nor Local: Review of Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime","authors":"Walter J. Kendall","doi":"10.5840/ACORN2018181/213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN2018181/213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123647187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/ACORN2018181/21
Greg Moses
{"title":"Pacifism and Nonviolence as Philosophical Mandate","authors":"Greg Moses","doi":"10.5840/ACORN2018181/21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN2018181/21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117321342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/ACORN2018181/211
Court D. Lewis
{"title":"Resisting Violence and Domination: Review of Howard Caygill, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance","authors":"Court D. Lewis","doi":"10.5840/ACORN2018181/211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN2018181/211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124768244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/acorn2018181/210
A. Farr
{"title":"Viewing the Black Panther Movie through the Lenses of Liberation Philosophy and Liberation Theology: Ryan Coogler, director. Marvel Studios, 2018","authors":"A. Farr","doi":"10.5840/acorn2018181/210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acorn2018181/210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129117261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.5840/ACORN20192229
Andrew G. Fiala
{"title":"The Pacifist Tradition and Pacifism as Transformative and Critical Theory","authors":"Andrew G. Fiala","doi":"10.5840/ACORN20192229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN20192229","url":null,"abstract":"Pacifism is often painted into a corner as an absolute rejection of all violence and war. Such a dogmatic and negative formulation of pacifism does leave us with pacifism as a morally problematic position. But pacifism is not best understood as a negative claim. Nor is pacifism best understood as a singular or monistic concept. Rather, there is a “pacifist tradition” that is grounded in an affirmative claim about the importance of nonviolence, love, community building, and peaceful conflict resolution. This more positive conception of pacifism aims to transform social and political life. When understood in this way, pacifism is a robust and useful critical social theory. This paper explores the philosophy of pacifism in an attempt to reconceptualize pacifism as a tradition of normative critical theory. The paper argues that pacifism ought to be understood on analogy with other critical theories—such as feminism; that pacifism should be understood in terms of the “pacifist tradition”—along lines familiar from interpretations of the “just war tradition”; and that pacifism should be seen as offering interesting themes and ideas that are worthy of philosophical attention.","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126169109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2017-12-07DOI: 10.5840/ACORN20171719
Court D. Lewis
{"title":"Cosmopolitan vs. Westphalian “Borders”: Review of Eddy M. Souffrant, ed. A Future without Borders? Theories and Practices of Cosmopolitan Peacebuilding","authors":"Court D. Lewis","doi":"10.5840/ACORN20171719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN20171719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"354 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117079850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2017-12-07DOI: 10.5840/ACORN20171716
Sanjay Lal
{"title":"The Relevance of Northern Ireland: Review of Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Talking to Terrorists, Nonviolence, and Counter-Terrorism","authors":"Sanjay Lal","doi":"10.5840/ACORN20171716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN20171716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127268799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AcornPub Date : 2017-12-07DOI: 10.5840/ACORN20171715
A. Neal, D. Tunstall, F. Hinojosa
{"title":"(R)evolutions of Consciousness in Thurman and Newton: Anthony Neal, Author of Common Ground, Meets Critics Dwayne A. Tunstall and Felipe Hinojosa","authors":"A. Neal, D. Tunstall, F. Hinojosa","doi":"10.5840/ACORN20171715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/ACORN20171715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":293445,"journal":{"name":"The Acorn","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130524673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}