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This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von
Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was
a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion, politics and peace
research. He started as an assistant to the physicist, Werner
Heisenberg, held professorships in theoretical physics
(Strasbourg), physics (Goettingen) and philosophy (Hamburg) and was
a co-director (with Juergen Habermas) of a Max Planck Institute for
Research into living conditions in a world of science and
technology in Starnberg. This unique anthology spans the wide scope
of his innovative thinking including his philosophical
self-reflections, on peace, nuclear strategy, security and
defensive defense, on nuclear energy, on the conditions of freedom,
on his experience of religion, including poetry from his early
youth. Most texts appear in English for the first time and are
selected for use in seminars on physics, philosophy, religion,
politics and peace research.
This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von
Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was
also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of
politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and
Otto Hahn in the German "Uranverein", obtained a patent for
plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear
armament of the German armed forces (1957). Furthermore, he
published a study on the inability to defend Germany (1971) that
was instrumental in the debate on defensive defense since the mid
1970s. He wrote on war and peace, peace and truth, policy
implications of nuclear energy, on ethical issues of modern
strategy, on consequences of war and war prevention and on the
theory of power. He coined the term "world domestic policy" which
still covers a valid theory for political, institutional secured
world peace in the atomic age.
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