pragmatic pacifism

(noun)

Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and interpersonal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.

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Examples of pragmatic pacifism in the following topics:

  • Peace

    • Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
    • Other views of pacifism include:
    • Pacifism may be based on moral principles or pragmatism.
    • Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.
    • Explain the difference between principled pacifism and pragmatic pacifism, and what they share in common

  • Pacific Coast Culture

  • Pragmatism

    • Pragmatism, a philosophical movement during the 1870s, is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory.
    • Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory.
    • Pragmatism as a philosophical movement began in the United States in the 1870s.
    • Peirce called his pragmatism "the logic of abduction," the logic of inference to explanatory hypotheses.
    • Describe the philosophical commitments of pragmatism, as evidenced by the work of Charles Sanders Pierce

  • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

    • APEC is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
    • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries (formally Member Economies) that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
    • APEC is considering the prospects and options for a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which would include all APEC member economies.
    • APEC's member countries border both the east and the west of the Pacific Ocean.
    • Explain the role The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC ) plays in ensuring free trade

  • Pacific Arts Festival

    • The Pacific Arts Festival celebrates the arts of indigenous cultures in the Oceanic region.
    • The Festival of Pacific Arts, or Pacific Arts Festival, is a traveling festival hosted every four years by a different country in Oceania.
    • It was conceived by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, former South Pacific Commission, as a means to stem the erosion of traditional cultural practices by sharing and exchanging culture at each festival.
    • The first festival was held in May of 1972 in Suva, Fuji, and it has been held roughly every four years since in countries around the Pacific.
    • By its vastness, the Pacific Ocean inhibits social and cultural interchange between the inhabitants of its island countries.

  • The Pragmatic Sanction

    • The Pragmatic Sanction was an edict issued by Charles VI on April 19, 1713, to ensure that the Habsburg hereditary possessions could be inherited by a daughter.
    • The Pragmatic Sanction was the first such document to be publicly announced and as such required formal acceptance by the estates of the realms it concerned.
    • Maria Theresa, Charles' daughter who in 1740 succeeded her father following his death, still gained the throne of Hungary (the Hungarian Parliament voted its own Pragmatic Sanction in 1723).
    • Despite the promulgation of the Pragmatic Sanction, however, her accession in 1740 resulted in the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession.
    • Explain the contents of the Pragmatic Sanction and its intended purpose

  • Postcolonial Discourse

    • Post-colonial literature, wherein writers articulate and celebrate the post-colonial identity of the decolonised, native society (an identity often reclaimed from the coloniser) whilst maintaining the independent nation's pragmatic connections (economic and social, linguistic and cultural) with the Mother Country.
    • Postcolonial literature is a body of literary writing that responds to the intellectual discourse of European colonization in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, and other post-colonial areas throughout the globe.

  • Mead

    • In Pragmatism, nothing practical or useful is held to be necessarily true, nor is anything which helps to survive merely in the short term.
    • The two most important roots of Mead's work, and of symbolic interactionism in general, are the philosophy of pragmatism and social behaviorism.
    • Pragmatism is a wide ranging philosophical position from which several aspects of Mead's influences can be identified.
    • In Pragmatism nothing practical or useful is held to be necessarily true, nor is anything which helps to survive merely in the short term.
    • Discuss Mead's theory of social psychology in terms of two concepts - pragmatism and social behaviorism

  • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

    • APEC is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
    • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum of 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
    • APEC currently has 21 members, including most countries with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean.
    • In response to fears that highly industrialized Japan would come to dominate economic activity in the Asia-Pacific region.
    • APEC's 21 members have a Pacific Coastline and a separate economy.

  • Nimitz in the Central Pacific

    • Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral of the United States Navy, played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces.
    • Pacific Fleet with the rank of admiral.
    • Six days later the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) divided the theater into three areas: the Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur), and the South East Pacific area.
    • Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, from June 1944 to August 1945...."
    • He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for United States and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.