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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Vojna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Vojna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. It is also considered by many to be one of the longest pieces of fiction.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.
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The Russian words for "peace" (pre-1918: "миръ") and "world" (pre-1918: "міръ", including world in the sense of "secular society"; see mir (social)) are homonyms and since the 1918 reforms have been spelled identically, which led to an urban legend in the Soviet Union saying that the original manuscript was called "Война и міръ" (so the novel's title would be correctly translated as "War and the World" or "War and Society"). "Which 'mir' is in 'Voina i Mir'?", Nauka i Zhizn 2002, no. 6 However, Tolstoy himself translated the title into French as "La guerre et la paix" ("War and Peace"). The confusion has been promoted by the popular Soviet TV quiz show Chto? Gde? Kogda? (Что? Где? Когда? - What? Where? When?), which in 1982 presented as a correct answer the "society" variant, based on a 1913 edition of "World and Peace" with a misprint in a single page. This episode was repeated in 2000, which refuelled the legend. More on [ War and Peace ]
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@Pascorskquai One more and I'll eave u in peace: for fan of hist fict, try Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davies, re Eng Civil War. Splendid:>
cailinos (cailin) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:27:14 -0000
@Pascorskquai One more and I'll eave u in peace: for fan of hist fict, try Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davies, re Eng Civil War. Splendid:>
funny,and the war rages on lol,just thot it was a funny read.peace kidz
EmcFraktal (Emc Fraktal) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:17:50 -0000
funny,and the war rages on lol,just thot it was a funny read.peace kidz
www.worldpeaceone.com an organization committed to creating global peace and eliminate war.
lszymczak (leonard szymczak) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:41:33 -0000
www.worldpeaceone.com an organization committed to creating global peace and eliminate war.
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
JesicaMoore (Jesica Moore) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:21:07 -0000
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
i went and saw an Iraqi man speak a couple years ago, he kept repeating "peace is the lack of war"
Outshyned (Rebecca ) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:06:35 -0000
i went and saw an Iraqi man speak a couple years ago, he kept repeating "peace is the lack of war"
has he found a cure for aids has he ended war, brought peace to afganistan or Iraq? has he solved world hunger and stoped climate change?
beautifulvenice (Laura Linehan) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:42:16 -0000
has he found a cure for aids has he ended war, brought peace to afganistan or Iraq? has he solved world hunger and stoped climate change?
Abelard - The Just War - Short paper discussing the notion of 'just war' in historic context and with reference to current affairs (2002).
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BBC NEWS - UK troops told: Be just and strong - British troops waiting to attack Iraq are told to be ferocious in battle, but magnanimous in victory.
Meta Description: [ British troops waiting to attack Iraq are told to be ferocious in battle, but magnanimous in victory. ]
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Carnegie Council - Ethics and the Use of Force Program - Promotes research and discourse on the role of ethics in armed conflict.
Meta Description: [ The Ethics and the Use of Force program develops resources and networks on just war theory, international laws of war, humanitarian intervention, nation-building, and civilian-military relations. Other topics include: Peter Maass, Michael Walzer, Romeo Dallaire, Michael Hirsh, Wesley Clark, terr... ]
Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics - Working to promote and enhance the ethical development of current and future military leaders through education, research, and reflection.
Meta Description: [ The United States Naval Academy, established in 1845, is the undergraduate college
for the Navy that prepares young men and women to become professional officers in the US Navy and Marine Corps. ]
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Philosophy of War - Introductory article covering war, what causes war, human nature and war, and war and political and moral Philosophy.
JustWarTheory.com - Devoted to public education in just war theory and its application in international law and foreign policy.
Meta Description: [ Free, non-profit, critically annotated aid to philosophical studies of warfare. ]
Military Ethics - Videos of lectures, links for resources and problems for case studies.
Meta Description: [ Ethics Updates provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics. ]
Terrorism and Response: A Moral Inquiry into the Killing of Noncombatants - An essay arguing that to kill noncombatants in a terrorist attack or during a collaterally violent response to such an attack is morally equivalent, that both are morally wrong, and neither are acts of war, but murder.
The Chronicle - When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic - By Shannon E. French. Ethics instructor discusses teaching what makes professional soldiers different than terrorists.
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The Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) - An organization of military professionals, academics and others formed to discuss ethical issues relevant to the military. The Conference meets each year in Washington, D.C. to present and discuss academic papers.
War - Article on the ethics of war and peace, the Just War theory, and pacificsm. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Brian D. Orend.
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