The Pacifist Conscience Author:Peter Mayer In this anthology, Peter Mayer has assembled the voices of the pacifist conscience - voices that, although largely unheeded, have been raised against war and the use of violence since the beginning of civilization. As he emphasizes in his introduction, the pacifist conscience embodies more than an absolute indictment of war; it includes a variet... more »y of viewpoints and approaches, the visionary and the pragmatic, the noble and the delusive.
Among those whose writings have been selected are the early philosophers Lao-Tzu and Erasmus, the Quakers, the conscientious objectors, Thoreau, Freud, and those twentieth-century figures, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, who have so dramatically demonstrated the power of non-violence.« less