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Halfway along the path, on the summit between the ascent toward an overview of some of the major dangers of our time, and the descent into the valleys of practical politics to prevent war, we stop for a brief, fundamental reflection. Have we brought order to the chaos of today’s fears? Do the concepts we used in our analysis permit consistent use? Do we understand our own basic concepts?
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This text was first published in English in: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: The Politics of Peril. Economics, Society and the Prevention of War. Translated by Michael Shaw (New York, N.Y.: Saebury Press 1978): 141:155; the original German version is published in Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Wege in der Gefahr. Eine Studie über Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kriegsverhütung (München, Wien: Hanser, 1976); paperback Edition (München: dtv, 51984): 140:152.
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K. Galbraith: The Industrial State (New York: New American Library, 1968): 71ff.
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See von Weizsäcker: Fragen zur Weltpolitik, pp. 136:138.
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Konrad Lorenz: On Aggression (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966).
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Ibid., pp. 28:29.
- 6.
H. Kissinger: A World Restored: Castlereagh, Metternich and the Restoration of Peace, 1812–1822 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1957).
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2015). Anthropology of Power. In: Bartosch, U. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13308-9_8
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