Abstract

The author attempts to establish a set of four categories--causality, meaning, attainability and desirability--within the framework of which the philosophic dimensions of war and peace are considered. The bulk of the volume consists in the study of this question as developed in the thought of thirteen men representing both political idealism and political realism. This portion of the study, representing a rather original approach, is more interesting than his concluding section, which offers a Deweyan theory of peace. --J. E. B.