Ethics of War and Peace
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Christian
Christian ethics
Christian pacifism
Christianity
Civil disobedience
Civil society
Combatant
Conscientious objector
Consequentialism
Consideration
Defensive war
Dichotomy
Divine law
Divisions of the world in Islam
Doctrine
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Ethics
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
God
Good and evil
Idolatry
Infidel
International ethics
International law
International relations
Islam
Jews
John Finnis
Just and Unjust Wars
Just war theory
Literature
Machiavellianism
Maimonides
Mennonite
Michael Walzer
Moral responsibility
Moral skepticism
Morality
Muslim
Muslim world
Nonviolence
Nonviolent resistance
Obedience (human behavior)
On War
Orality
Pacifism
Political philosophy
Politics
Preemptive war
Presumption (canon law)
Preventive war
Princeton University Press
Principle
Quran
Radical feminism
Realism (international relations)
Religion
Religious text
Requirement
Right of self-defense
Slavery
Stanley Hauerwas
Theology
Theory
Utilitarianism
War
War of aggression
Warfare
Writing
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780691058405
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A superb introduction to the ethical aspects of war and peace, this collection of tightly integrated essays explores the reasons for waging war and for fighting with restraint as formulated in a diversity of ethical traditions, religious and secular. Beginning with the classic debate between political realism and natural law, this book seeks to expand the conversation by bringing in the voices of Judaism, Islam, Christian pacifism, and contemporary feminism. In so doing, it addresses a set of questions: How do the adherents to each viewpoint understand the ideas of war and peace? What attitudes toward war and peace are reflected in these understandings? What grounds for war, if any, are recognized within each perspective? What constraints apply to the conduct of war? Can these constraints be set aside in situations of extremity? Each contributor responds to this set of questions on behalf of the ethical perspective he or she is presenting. The concluding chapters compare and contrast the perspectives presented without seeking to adjudicate their differences.
Because of its inclusive, objective, comparative, and dialogic approach, the book serves as a valuable resource for scholars, journalists, policymakers, and anyone else who wants to acquire a better understanding of the range of moral viewpoints that shape current discussion of war and peace. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Joseph Boyle, Michael G. Cartwright, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Finnis, Sohail H. Hashmi, Theodore J. Koontz, David R. Mapel, Jeff McMahan, Richard B. Miller, Aviezer Ravitzky, Bassam Tibi, Sarah Tobias, and Michael Walzer.
Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of the States (Princeton) and coeditor, with David R. Mapel, of Traditions of International Ethics and International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives.
