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University Press of America On Human Conflict The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace by Lou Marinoff
On Human Conflict excavates the cavernous philosophical foundations of war and peace. The magnum opus is bracketed by the author's experience of the Cuban missile crisis as a schoolboy, and his witnessing of 9/11 as an adult. It studies the human species with an admixture of evolutionary insight, free-ranging horror, and heavily-guarded optimism. It is also the uncensored voice of a conservative philosopher who dares to speak his mind on contemporary conflicts-including the "culture" and "gender" wars, and Islamic jihad-in an age when political correctness has lowered an "Ivy Curtain" prohibiting freedom of expression on campus, and across Western civilization entire._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
Acknowledgments _x000D_
Chapter Zero: Epistle to the Reader, From Grounds Zero _x000D_
Chapter One: The Problem of War-An Overview _x000D_
Chapter Two: The Mathematics of Conflict-War Ill-Described _x000D_
Chapter Three: The Hobbesian Conflict-War Well-Described _x000D_
Chapter Four: The Aetiology of Conflict _x000D_
Chapter Five: The Nature of Conflict _x000D_
Chapter Six: The Nurture of Conflict _x000D_
Chapter Seven: The Study of Conflict _x000D_
Chapter Eight: Conclusions and Inconclusions, from Point Omega _x000D_
References _x000D_
Index _x000D_
About the Author_x000D_