Filozofia współczesna wobec wojny, pokoju i bezpieczeństwa

The author has presented in the article the analysis of leading 20th century thinkers’ viewpoints on war, peace and security. In the introduction he briefly characterised conditions of creating and developing the world’s polemologic and irenologic thought and differentiated two basic stages in its evolution, the borders of which were marked by the dates of both world war ends. The publication focuses on conducting the review of attitudes in basic security issues (war and peace including) of such distinguished world scholars as Bertrand Russel, Sigmunt Freud, Erich Fromm, Karl Jaspers, Max Weber, Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner and Florian Znaniecki. Certain conclusions and generalisations have been presented in the final part of the article, drawing particular attention to the need to spread universal ideas and all-human values (human rights and freedom) in modern world, exposing, however, the necessity to respect cultural - civilisation differences in the name of universal pluralism and international peace.