Modernity and Its Discontents Three Dangerous Propensities of Modernity The extraordinary developments of our Scientific-Technologies have created unprecedented possibilities in both positive and negative scenarios. In all areas of human enterprise from genetic manipulation to social control, to the unknown…
Hannah Arendt On Violence: A Reappraisal of Her General Theory of Violence By Seán English On Violence[1] by Hannah Arendt was first published in 1969 and is in many ways a child of its time, reflecting the issues of the…
The Great Illusion by Norman Angell (1910)(Revisited) By Seán English La Féile Bríde 1 February 2023 Attempts at Constructing a Viable International Peace System: The Failure of the Peace Movements A number of very prominent and well know anti-war activists…
Tolstoy’s Views on Religion, Jesus and the Council of Nicaea Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian author and pacifist, became a deeply religious person in his later life. He believed himself to be a fully committed Christian in the sense that…
