ABSTRACT
Over the centuries, individual attitudes towards violence have changed dramatically. The questions of freedom and the ways to acquire and preserve it are of cardinal importance. On the social and political levels, history teaches us that violence is the privileged mode of change; even when the horizon and the illusion of perpetual peace are promised. The Sermon on the Mount of the Christian New Testament and Gandhi’s choices are exceptions. Today, non-violence is a strong aspiration and a distant utopia. It remains for us to rethink man in a global society.
