Grundlagen für das Thema Frieden in Baudissins Werk

In: Sicherheit und Frieden: S + F = Security and Peace, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 197-208

Abstract

The spiritual turning point in Baudissin's life is shown in his works "East or West - thoughts about a vital German-European question", written during his imprisonment in 1946. He received essential impetus from Wilhelm Röpke's "Civitas Humana" and Emil Brunner's "Justice". Baudissin's worries were about a general new ethic orientation. Thus, peace on earth has become a decisive normative and objective category of thinking. He views this peace of the individual as "inner peace" aswell as a political one, both being interlinked. In the face of a "common peacelessness" he looks for political possibilities of improvement and recommends to focus on the immediate objective, the political concrete. These are the foundations of his further work as the creator of »Inner Leadership« with the model of a "Soldier for Peace" as well as the peace researcher counselling politicians on the strategies of deterrent and cooperative steering of armament. (S+F / IFSH)