Updated Fall 2025
The Realm of Personal Nonviolence
In the embedded circles of our research template for nonviolence research, “personal” is represented as the innermost circle. The Personal Realm invites inquiry into the care and cultivation of the self.
Buber: I and Thou
“For the I of the primary word I-Thou is a different I from that of the primary word I-It.”
https://archive.org/details/IAndThou_572/
Thurman: Jesus and the Disinherited
In this book, based upon 1948 lectures given at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, TX, Howard Thurman explores how Jesus faced social conditions that were conducive to fear, deception, and hate; and yet he counseled courage, truth, and love.
Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.260684/
King: “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”
Martin Luther King Jr. explains why he came to affirm nonviolence as an approach to seeking peace and justice between persons, groups, and nations. (King Institute, Stanford)
Hanh: “Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings”
Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh developed these teachings when he organized the Order of Interbeing in Vietnam in 1966. (Plum Village)
Plato: “Allegory of the Cave“
Socrates speaking to Glaucon in Bk. VII of the Republic: “And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.”
As presented by Orson Welles @ YouTube.
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