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War And The Illiberal Conscience

1998-05-07 History
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Book Synopsis War And The Illiberal Conscience by : Christopher Coker

Download or read book War And The Illiberal Conscience written by Christopher Coker. This book was released on 1998-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative exposition of the long-standing struggle between liberalism and illiberalism, focusing on the revolt against liberalism from the end of the 19th century to the present day. "The range of (Christopher) Coker's erudition is stunning, and the rapid leaps across intellectual eras, disciplines, and national borders are breathtaking".--Seyom Brown, Brandeis University.

War and the Liberal Conscience

1978 History
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Release : 1978
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Book Synopsis War and the Liberal Conscience by : Michael Howard

Download or read book War and the Liberal Conscience written by Michael Howard. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries liberal minded men have been horrified by the pain and waste of war. From Erasmus, who saw war above all as a product of stupidity, to the Marxists who see it as a matter of class conflict, they have produced social theories to account for its occurrence and have tried to devise means to end it. Their prescriptions have been various. The central view of the Enlightenment was that wars would end when the ambitions of princes could be curbed by the sanity of ordinary men. At first the commercial classes seemed to be the new force that would produce this happy state, but by the end of the nineteenth century they themselves (the 'capitalists') were being stigmatized as the instigators of war. Similarly, the nineteenth-century liberals at first believed that the rise of the new independent nation-states of Europe would lead to a permanent peace as the wishes of the masses (naturally peace-loving) were able to express themselves. Again, the supposed agents of peace were soon seen as a prime cause of wars. Despite these contradictions there have been certain continuing themes in the search for a means to end wars, and one of the most enlightening things in this book is they way in which it is possible to see how these themes recur in subtly different forms in different periods of history. Professor Howard traces them from the renaissance to our own time, through the social, political and intellectual groups that gave birth to them. Throughout the whole story runs the continuing contrast between those who hoped to find a single cause for the disease, leading to a lasting cure, and those who understood that, in Professor Howard's words, 'this was a task which needs to be tackled afresh every day of our lives'.

War and the Liberal Conscience

1989
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Release : 1989
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War and the 20th Century

1994 History
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Release : 1994
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Book Synopsis War and the 20th Century by : Christopher Coker

Download or read book War and the 20th Century written by Christopher Coker. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has been the defining theme of the 20th century. It has dominated our imagination; it has influenced our political language; it has shaped and determined our view of history. This study sets out to look at the modern consciousness and war in terms of a number of themes: our view of the 20th century; our understanding of modernity; our attitude to the meaning or meaninglessness of history; our trust or distrust of science; our psychological presuppositions. Towards the end of the book the author also looks at the often tragic nature of the encounter between the western and non-western worlds. Throughout the study the discussion is anchored to several seminal themes or works drawn from a wide spectrum of American and European authors in the fields of literature and philosophy. Western culture has been deeply influenced - both consciously and unconsciously by its experience of conflict, in particular the two World Wars and the Cold War that followed them. This study illustrates why, in the course of the 20th century, war became the accredited theme of modern life.

Public War, Private Conscience

2010-05-02 Philosophy
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Release : 2010-05-02
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Book Synopsis Public War, Private Conscience by : Andrew Fiala

Download or read book Public War, Private Conscience written by Andrew Fiala. This book was released on 2010-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public War, Private Conscience offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing a clear and accessible overview of the different ways of thinking about war. Engaging both with contemporary examples and historical ideas about war, the book offers unique analysis of issues relating to terrorism, conscience objection, just war theory and pacifism. Andrew Fiala examines the conflict between utilitarian and deontological points of view. On the one hand, wars are part of the project of public welfare, subject to utilitarian evaluation. On the other hand, war is also subject to deontological judgment that takes seriously the importance of private conscience and human rights. This book argues that the conflict between these divergent approaches is unavoidable. We are continually caught in the tragic conflict between these two values: public happiness and private morality. And it is in war that we find the conflict at its most obvious and most disturbing.

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