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On the Compatibility of Pacifism and Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Laura Duhan Kaplan
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Abstract

A mother's commitment to use violence if necessary to protect her children is not incompatible with pacifism, if pacifism is understood as the commitment to end war and war is understood as the use of violence as a political tool.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Winter 1992 , pp. 133 - 134
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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