Cultural Disarmament
Subtitle: The Way to Peace
Contributors: Robert Barr (Translator)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: September 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780664255497
First sentence: To say that peace is a "myth" is to use the word "myth" in both of its apparently most contradictory acceptations simultaneously.
Description: The world's inhabitants are clearly not only interdependent but singly unable to achieve peace. In this important and timely book, philosopher and theologian Raimon Panikkar deals with the crucial issues of our time - peace, war, religion, ecology - as he redefines true peace and offers a way to achieve it in the world. Peace, he argues, requires more than nuclear, military, or economic disarmament.

Peace can ultimately be obtained only by cultural disarmament, which requires that absolutism be abandoned for true reconciliation through ongoing intercultural dialogues.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 3. Toward a Philosophy of Peace