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The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time
Peter Temes
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Description for The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time
Paperback. The Just War offers a critical history of Just War thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HPQ; JPWL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 176 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290. Very good clean copy
A critical history of Just War thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Temes's book proposes a radically new vision, one that respects the received tradition but takes account of the moral experience of the world today.
A critical history of Just War thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Temes's book proposes a radically new vision, one that respects the received tradition but takes account of the moral experience of the world today.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc Chicago, IL
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636018
SKU
KEX0250126
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99-15
About Peter Temes
Peter S. Temes is president of the Antioch New England Graduate School and formerly head of the Great Books Foundation. He has taught at every level of American education, including a course on the moral principles of war at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching). He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Reviews for The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time
...Reading and discussing The Just War seems almost necessary.
San Francisco Chronicle
Timely and intelligent commentary. . . . The book's chief gift is its empowerment of the reader to make informed moral observations on future wars.
Publishers Weekly
With this timely book Peter Temes . . . cuts through the usual polemics about a subject as urgent and complex as it is timeless. . . . A truly admirable book.
Sidney Hyman Lucidly and intensely Temes engages us in a carefully reasoned, historically rooted, evocative drive to justify war in terms that serve modern conditions.
Lewis M. Feldstein, chair of Harvard University's Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement and president, The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation In this lucid and clearly written book, Peter Temes provides a thorough and balanced assessment of Just War thinking from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives.
George Lucas, Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law, U.S. Naval Academy Should be a required reading for those who beat war's drum.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Challeng[es] us to form a new moral view of war.
Tampa Tribune
The author takes a new look at 'just war theory.'
Forecast
Temes's philosophical synthesis is nuanced and impressive.
Booklist
More than just a history . . . considers the idea of 'just war thinking' . . . probing the philosophy behind justifications for war.
Midwest Book Review
The book [is] the best single work on the subject of Just War that I have read in the past 20 years.
Major Arthur Gans
Canadian Military Journal
San Francisco Chronicle
Timely and intelligent commentary. . . . The book's chief gift is its empowerment of the reader to make informed moral observations on future wars.
Publishers Weekly
With this timely book Peter Temes . . . cuts through the usual polemics about a subject as urgent and complex as it is timeless. . . . A truly admirable book.
Sidney Hyman Lucidly and intensely Temes engages us in a carefully reasoned, historically rooted, evocative drive to justify war in terms that serve modern conditions.
Lewis M. Feldstein, chair of Harvard University's Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement and president, The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation In this lucid and clearly written book, Peter Temes provides a thorough and balanced assessment of Just War thinking from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives.
George Lucas, Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law, U.S. Naval Academy Should be a required reading for those who beat war's drum.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Challeng[es] us to form a new moral view of war.
Tampa Tribune
The author takes a new look at 'just war theory.'
Forecast
Temes's philosophical synthesis is nuanced and impressive.
Booklist
More than just a history . . . considers the idea of 'just war thinking' . . . probing the philosophy behind justifications for war.
Midwest Book Review
The book [is] the best single work on the subject of Just War that I have read in the past 20 years.
Major Arthur Gans
Canadian Military Journal