La suite francaise irene nemirovsky5/30/2023 ![]() Making something under these circumstances may exemplify our need for truthfulness and imply a moral statement against war. The examples testify that even at war’s most tragic and destructive depths, the human need to resist or deny it by making something is at least equally strong. On a BBC interview in July 2007 he said “War is a calculated out of control slaughter of humans.” The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the opposite of war may be the inextinguishable human need to make things rather than destroy them. For a definition of war, I differ to Harry Patch, at the time of writing the last known survivor of World War One trenches and 109 years of age. If we are to accept the universal principal of change as the integral component to all life, our concept of peace as stasis betrays our predilection to choose war as an acceptable means of human expression. It might be deduced from this that peace is popularly understood as inaction, whereas the opposite is true of its antonym, war. Furthermore, common synonyms of the word peace in thesauri include inactive, inanimate, mild and motionless. ![]() As it is experienced by most people, peace is both temporary and local, an unstable situation before the inevitable return of the cessation of truth and morality which always accompany war. ![]() ""Concepts of Peace: Peace as an Activity Against War Peace is not the opposite of war. ![]()
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