Conflicts (2)
No, obviously it is far from easy to create in the harsh times we’re living through. The seeming impossibility of diplomatic solutions to the current conflicts in Ukraine, and for that matter of course in other parts of the world are part of the context in which we live and work. As noted in my previous post, I have gone to the work of John Dewey in search of ideas that may provide ways of finding peaceful solutions. So again I quote Dewey in regard to the use of diplomacy:
We have to analyze conditions by observations, which are as discriminating as they are extensive, until we discover specific interactions that are taking place, and learn to think in terms of interactions instead of force. We are led to search even for the conditions which have given the interacting factors the power they possess.
Additionally, I think we must look at today’s ongoing protests against “Putin’s war” as an “interacting factor” rejecting the misuse of power and force of arms.*
*The citation is from Dewey’s Freedom and Culture, 1939 (1963).
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