THE PROBLEM OF PACIFISM IN THE THOUGHT OF RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF XVI CENTURY
Abstract
The article analyzes the views of the "Oxford reformers" John Colet (1467-1519), Thomas More (1478-1535) and Erasmus (1469-1536) on war and peace. The study of their writings suggests that they have a common pacifist position and openly manifested negative attitude to the Italian wars (1494-1559). The authors consider that the attempt to identify the Colet-More-Erasmus’s pacifist concept as an adoption the ideas from the Florentine Neoplatonism, J. Savonarola or the Lollardism is inefficient way. For Renaissance intellectuals, the Christian love to neighbor was the most effective instrument to transform the interpersonal relations, social institutions, relations of classes and states. Such conclusion admits to decline the thesis about negative relation of Christian philosophy of non-violence with the contemporary real social practices of that time.
About the Authors
L. V. Sofronova
Minin Nizhny Novgorod Statе Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of History, professor,
Nizhni Novgorod
V. G. Tsivatyi
Diplomatic Academy Of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine
PhD in History, Professor,
Kiev
E. A. Grigorieva
Minin Nizhny Novgorod Statе Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
postgraduate student,
Nizhni Novgorod
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