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Author : Eric Patterson
Release : 2012-03-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Ethics Beyond War's End by : Eric Patterson
Download or read book Ethics Beyond War's End written by Eric Patterson. This book was released on 2012-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. essays from a conference held in Apr. 2010 at Georgetown University.
Author : Eric Patterson
Release : 2012-03-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ethics Beyond War's End by : Eric Patterson
Download or read book Ethics Beyond War's End written by Eric Patterson. This book was released on 2012-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral? Ethics Beyond War’s End provides answers to these questions from the just war tradition. Just war thinking engages the difficult decisions of going to war and how war is fought. But from this point forward just war theory must also take into account what happens after war ends, and the critical issues that follow: establishing an enduring order, employing political forms of justice, and cultivating collective forms of conciliation. Top thinkers in the field—including Michael Walzer, Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Turner Johnson, and Brian Orend—offer powerful contributions to our understanding of the vital issues associated with late- and post conflict in tough, real-world scenarios that range from the US Civil War to contemporary quagmires in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Congo.
Author : D. Chan
Release : 2016-06-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 415/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Just War by : D. Chan
Download or read book Beyond Just War written by D. Chan. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?'
Author : William H. Shaw
Release : 2016-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War by : William H. Shaw
Download or read book Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War written by William H. Shaw. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed utilitarian analysis of the ethical issues involved in war. Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War addresses the two basic ethical questions posed by war: when, if ever, are we morally justified in waging war, and if recourse to arms is warranted, how are we permitted to fight the wars we wage? In addition, it deals with the challenge that realism and relativism raise for the ethical discussion of war, and with the duties of military personnel and the moral challenges they can face. In tackling these matters, the book covers a wide range of topics—from pacifism to armed humanitarian intervention, from the right of national defense to pre-emptive or preventive war, from civilian immunity to the tenets of just war theory and the moral underpinnings of the rules of war. But, what is distinctive about this book is that it provides a consistent and thorough-going utilitarian or consequentialist treatment of the fundamental normative issues that war occasions. Although it goes against the tide of recent work in the field, a utilitarian approach to the ethics of war illuminates old questions in new ways by showing how a concern for well-being and the consequences of our actions and policies shape the moral constraints to which states and other actors must adhere. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, just war theory, moral philosophy, war and conflict studies and IR.
Author : James Turner Johnson
Release : 2016-03-23
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 611/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics by : James Turner Johnson
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics written by James Turner Johnson. This book was released on 2016-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators. Subjects are organized by three major perspectives on the use of military force: the decision whether to use military force in a given context, the matter of right conduct in the use of such force, and ethical responsibilities beyond the end of an armed conflict. Treatment of issues in each of these sections takes account of both present-day moral challenges and new approaches to these and the historical tradition of just war. Military ethics, as it has developed, has been a particularly Western concern and this volume reflects that reality. However, in a globalized world, awareness of similarities and differences between Western approaches and those of other major cultures is essential. For this reason the volume concludes with chapters on ethics and war in the Islamic, Chinese, and Indian traditions, with the aim of integrating reflection on these approaches into the broad consideration of military ethics provided by this volume.
