L’addio di Raymond Aron al pacifismo

This work focuses on one aspect of Raymond Aron’s work that is generally little known. At the beginning of his public and intellectual activity, in fact, the Parisian sociologist was a follower of Emile Chartier, better known as Alain, a philosopher of radical political orientation, decidedly pacifist. The author of Peace and War among Nations, a manifesto of realist internationalist thought, was a fervent pacifist for some years. In this paper, I will analyze the passages that, in the early 1930s, led Aron to distance himself from pacifism and to approach a much more realistic view.