Pacea ca valoare
The Value of Peace

Summary/Abstract: One of the moral standings says, that we cannot trully aknowledge something good and appreciate it, if we didn't go through something bad. From this standpoint of view, peace is often defined as something that goes after period of war, riot, turnmoil, or uncertainty of any kind. War, in a way, seems to be a very efficient mechanism for establishing peace, Aristothel said. Even today, stating the absence of war is the most common way of defining it, although it is possible to define peace without mentioning war or unrest in any form. The existence of the world depends on peace and on the speed of calming social riots as well as the removal of rates of terror and extremism of any kind. Modern legal and political systems have a lot of new mechanisms to achieve peace, and a lot of international agreements and national measures as well. Some of these mechanisms, in the long term, can unfortunatelly bring more harm than benefit. It seems that peace, taken as the aspiration and the need of human kind, could be the biggest loser, while trying to achieve itself fully. People want peace. Augustine of Hippo said that there is no word that is more spoken, more wanted as a state of mind than the state of peace. We can examine peace as a temporary station of future winers, in some new future wars, and that seems quite exceptable on many levels. Kant believed that it is possible to make a perpetual peace and save a human kind, although it is possible that there must precede some very unjust war. In this short overview, the authors will tend to research some theories and circumstances in which achieveing peace is possible, and also to explore defining peace, without connecting with unrest and uneasiness in any sense.

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