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The Ethics of War: Essays
Saba Bazargan (Ed.)
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Description for The Ethics of War: Essays
Hardback. This authoritative treatment on the ethics of war contains twelve original essays by eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War theory, as well as by up-and-coming thinkers. The essays span both foundational and topical issues in the ethics of war. Editor(s): Rickless, Samuel C.; Bazargan, Saba. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 544.
Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts. To this day, Just War theory informs the judgments of ethicists, government officials, international lawyers, religious scholars, news coverage, and perhaps most importantly, the public as a whole. The influence of Just War theory is as vast as it is subtle - we have been socialized into evaluating wars largely according to the principles of this medieval theory, which, according to the eminent philosopher David Rodin, ... Read more
Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts. To this day, Just War theory informs the judgments of ethicists, government officials, international lawyers, religious scholars, news coverage, and perhaps most importantly, the public as a whole. The influence of Just War theory is as vast as it is subtle - we have been socialized into evaluating wars largely according to the principles of this medieval theory, which, according to the eminent philosopher David Rodin, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199376148
SKU
V9780199376148
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About Saba Bazargan (Ed.)
Bazargan: Assistant Professor; Rickless: Professor; both at Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego Samuel C. Rickless earned his B. A. from Harvard in 1986, spent two years on a Marshall Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford (1986-1988), where he earned a B. Phil., and then earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1996. After five years as ... Read more
Reviews for The Ethics of War: Essays
The argumentative chapters in this volume convey the contours of the most important ethical issues surrounding the revisionist approach to war as well as make genuine progress on those issues. The volume is therefore worth careful reading both for those looking for a thorough introduction to the revisionist approach and for seasoned philosophers of war looking for new insights.
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