1st Edition

World Peace and the Human Family

By Roy Weatherford Copyright 1993
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    Modern coverage of world events suggest that war and violence are key to contemporary society. History can convince us that it has ever been so, and many theorist of international relations argue that nothing is likely to change.
    Roy Weatherford argues that a profound change in social relations is imminent as national sovereignty yields to a democratic world culture, speaking a world language and living as a world wide family - the human family.
    For too long world peace has seemed a noble but unattainable ideal. Weatherford shows that it is now both economically and politically possible and is therefore our moral duty.

    PREFACE, 1. World peace as an ideal, 2. World peace as a possibility, 3. World peace as an institution, 4. The human family as an ideal, 5. The human family as a possibility, 6. The human family as an institution, 7. Economic interdependence, 8. Cultural interdependence, 9. Environmental interdependence, 10. What is important?, 11. Who is a person?, 12. Utilitarianism for the family, 13. Conclusion: a family at peace, NOTES, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

    Biography

    Roy Weatherford