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Global Ethics and Global Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Donald A. MacLean
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World peace, the greatest natural good mankind can possess, is a universal global responsibility. In its attainment all peoples, nations and states should share. Sacrifice, generosity and good will are its vital concomitants.

A necessary and urgent requirement for guaranteeing the ordered tranquility of mankind is the creation of a sound, reliable, and effective peace program. To this must be coupled such practical, juridical, international institutions as are necessary to ensure the application of the program to the realities of the present world crisis. This constitutes for peoples and states their major ethical obligation.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1943 , pp. 517 - 523
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1943

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1 Benedict XV, Letter to the Heads of the Belligerent Nations, August 1, 1917.

2 Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, para. 75.

3 Pius XI, Summi Pontificatus, para. 68.

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6 Pius XII, world broadcast, Christmas, 1940.

7 Pius XI, Letter to Semaine Sociale, Lille, July, 1932.

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