The Acorn

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  1. Narrative of a Committed Intercultural Philosopher.J. Chidozie Chukwuokolo - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):153-160.
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    Whose Pacifism? Which Nonviolence? Key Questions that Guide the Inquiry of Philosophical Pacifism.Andrew Fiala - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):109-134.
    Philosophical pacifism is an inquiry and research agenda that begins from the presumption that war is wrong and which seeks to imagine a more peaceful and less violent future. This article proposes five key questions that serve to elucidate the complexity of philosophical pacifism, helping to distinguish it from a simplistic and dogmatic opposition to war. The key questions are: Who has an obligation to be peaceful or nonviolent? To whom is pacifism addressed? When (or in what circumstances) is nonviolence (...)
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    Did Jesus Teach Absolute Pacifism?Carlo Filice - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):135-151.
    Against the background of widespread use and justification of violence in Christian history, this paper reviews the text of the Christian Gospels to see if the words or deeds of Jesus or his followers indicate whether Jesus taught absolute pacifism. I argue that while the evidence does not totally refute the claims of the just war tradition, the weight of the evidence corroborates the conclusion that Jesus was indeed a pacifist and that his pacifism is grounded in a particularly demanding (...)
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    Transforming Broken Justice.Andrew Fitz-Gibbon - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):161-166.
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    Gandhian Insights as a Possible Cure for the Post-Election Blues.Sanjay Lal - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):97-108.
    In response to widespread anxiety, disappointment, and frustration in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election in the US, this article reviews four interrelated aspects of Gandhian thought that may serve as worthy preparations for mindful responses: (1) his conception of political power, (2) the priority he gives to moral standing, (3) his conception of self-rule (swaraj), and (4) the disavowal of consequences to his overall understanding of right action. The final part of the article focuses on Gandhi’s remarkably positive (...)
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  6. The Many Gifts of Intercultural Dialogue, edited by Fred Dallmayr.Sanjay Lal - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):173-176.
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    Editor’s Introduction.Greg Moses - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):95-96.
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  8. Author’s Reply.Mechthild Nagel - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (2):167-172.
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    Safeguarding Bodies That Matter.Danny Marrero - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):41-68.
    Judith Butler’s 2021 essay “Bodies That Still Matter” offers a compressed rehearsal of themes and moves that are developed in more detail in their 2020 book, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. In both projects, Butler spotlights the term feminicidio as an instructive indicator of brutality and violence against feminized individuals, including trans women. Feminicidio exemplifies the violence of “unequal grievability” that Butler’s recent work seeks to overcome; therefore, in particular relation to their recent work on nonviolence, Butler insists (...)
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    Use Your “Mother Tongue” to Change the World.Sheryl M. Medlicott - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):25-40.
    On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ursula Le Guin’s novella The Word for World is Forest, the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures posed a question: what can this text offer to activists engaged in environmental and social movements today? In this response I propose we can learn from this book by noticing the ecofeminist perspective underlying its morality. In The Word for World is Forest, Le Guin demonstrates clear links between behaviours that discriminate against women and “others,” including (...)
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  11. (4 other versions)Editor's Introduction.Greg Moses - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):1-1.
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    "The Root Is the Dream”.Ben Nadler - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):7-24.
    In Ursula Le Guin’s novella The Word for World Is Forest (1972), the indigenous inhabitants of the planet Athshe use the act of dreaming as a fundamental part of their anti-colonial praxis. Le Guin emphasizes the skill and responsibility involved in the process of translating dreams into language, and then into political action. In Le Guin’s near-future novel The Lathe of Heaven (1971), a man discovers the power of “effective dreaming,” and is able to change the course of world events (...)
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    Reimagining Nonviolence, Oppression, and Gender Justice.José -Antonio Orosco - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):3-6.
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    Divine Violence vs. Nonviolence.Justin Pearce - 2024 - The Acorn 24 (1):69-90.
    In The Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler argues that Walter Benjamin’s concept of divine violence can be related to a technique of nonviolent civil government. To make the argument, Butler relies on Benjamin’s philosophy of translation. This article reviews Benjamin’s concept of divine violence as presented in “Toward the Critique of Violence” in order to show that divine violence is violence. While some forms of nonviolence identified by Butler share common traits with Benjamin’s divine violence in the fact that they (...)
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