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The article focuses on the research of the Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy concerning the conceptional understanding of peace in the Antique ages. Theses of the brilliant Greek and Roman philosophers like Heraclitus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Socrates, Cicero, Polybius, and Marcus Aurelius are being analyzed and introduced as the arguments for the conclusions which demonstrate crucial points of vision of peace not only for ancient philosophers, but for the ancient people on the whole. The topic is both historical an...

The mankind (preliminary – its European integral part) understood the medieval world as the arena where irreconcilable struggle between Good and Evil continuously went on. The main opponents were the Christian philosophy and the heretic ideas, the main battleground – the human soul. As the Christianity conquered the dominating philosophic position, natural scientific knowledge should have been content with its secondary role and all discoveries and scientific theories defied censorship of the Bible. The theories, ...

The philosophic doctrine of Immanuel Kant was innovative for its historical period. It harmoniously consisted of both social and political aspects, which could lay the stable foundation for the political stability in Europe for many decades. Unfortunately, his treatise “To the Perpetual Peace” had a vivid tone of social romanticism and political Utopia. Frankly believing in construction of the non-conflictive society based on humanistic and legal principles, the great German philosopher ignored the contradictive t...