Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Center for Global Nonkilling
Published: September 21, 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Format: 14.8x21
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780982298312
Subjects: Nonkilling; Nonviolence; Sceintific revolution; Paradigm shift; Peace
First sentence: Understanding the nature of human violence and reducing its occurrence are the most pressing issues of our time. The last century, which evolutionary sociologists hoped would be the most civilized in history, brought the mechanization of war to a new level with the deaths of tens of millions of people. Even after two world wars, conflicts persist in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere, constituting to some a grim proof that violence is an intrinsic part of human nature and, as such, unstoppable.
Description: The open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killing-accepting science. This volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (Anthropology, Arts, Biology, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline’s role in the necessary social and scientific transformation.
Notes: Edited by Joám Evans Pim
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 9; title: Introduction: A New Nonkilling Paradigm Emerges
pagenum: 13; title: Reflections on the Possibilities of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology
pagenum: 35; title: Nonkilling Arts
pagenum: 73; title: Nonkilling Human Biology
pagenum: 95; title: Nonkilling Economics
pagenum: 125; title: Nonkilling, Professional Ethics, and Engineering the Public Good
pagenum: 151; title: Toward a Nonkilling Geography
pagenum: 169; title: Nonkilling Public Health
pagenum: 189; title: How to Historicize What Did Not Happen
pagenum: 203; title: Toward a Nonkilling Linguistics
pagenum: 219; title: A Nonkilling Mathematics?
pagenum: 241; title: Nonkilling Philosophy
pagenum: 271; title: Nonkilling Science
pagenum: 289; title: Psychology of Nonkilling
pagenum: 327; title: The Psychology of Nonkilling
pagenum: 349; title: Nonkilling Sociology
pagenum: 371; title: Epilogue: A Utopia Worth Pursuing
pagenum: 380