Beyond Just War

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Beyond Just War
Author : D. Chan
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Publisher : Springer
Language : English
Release Date : 01 June 2016
ISBN : 9781137263414
Pages : 223 pages
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Beyond Just War by D. Chan Book PDF Summary

Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?'

Beyond Just War

Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and

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The Morality of War

"Brian Orend's The Morality of War promises to become the single most comprehensive and important book on just war for this generation. It moves far beyond the review of the standard just war categories to deal comprehensively with the new challenges of the conflict with terrorism. It thoughtfully reviews every

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Just War and Human Rights

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights. Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges to the modern state. Serious questions have arisen about the use of drones, target selection, civilian exposure to harm, intervening for humanitarian reasons, and war as

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Just War Theory

This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.

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The Ethics of War

Some of the most basic assumptions of Just War theory have been dismantled in a barrage of criticism and analysis in the first dozen years of the twenty-first century. 'The Ethics of War' continues and pushes past this trend. This anthology is an authoritative treatment of the ethics and law

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Just War as Christian Discipleship

This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to know the just war tradition but to live it even in the face of the tremendous difficulties

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Expanding Responsibility for the Just War

This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.

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Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and

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