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The Ethics of War

Classic and Contemporary Readings

Gebonden Engels 2006 1e druk 9781405123778
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The Ethics of War is an indispensable collection of essays addressing issues both timely and age–old about the nature and ethics of war.

- Features essays by great thinkers from ancient times through to the present day, among them Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, Russell, and Walzer
- Examines timely questions such as: When is recourse to arms morally justifiable? What moral constraints should apply to military conduct? How can a lasting peace be achieved?
- Will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in morality and ethics in war time
- Includes informative introductions and helpful marginal notes by editors

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781405123778
Trefwoorden:ethiek, oorlogsvoering
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:756
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:24-5-2006

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Inhoudsopgave

Preface.
Acknowledgments.

Part I: Ancient and Early Christian.
1. Thucydides (ca. 460 ca. 400 BC): War and Power.
2. Plato (427­–347 BC): Tempering War among the Greeks.
3. Aristotle (384 322 BC): Courage, Slavery, and Citizen Soldiers.
4. Roman Law of War and Peace (7th century BC 1st century AD): Ius Fetiale.
5. Cicero (106­­–43 BC): Civic Virtue as the Foundation of Peace.
6. Early Church Fathers (2nd 4th century): Pacifism and Defense of the Innocent.
7. Augustine (354 430): Just War in the Service of Peace.

Part II: Medieval.
8. Medieval Peace Movements (975 1123): Religious Limitations on Warfare.
9. The Crusades (11th 13th century): Christian Holy War.
10. Gratian and the Decretists (12th century): War and Coercion in the Decretum.
11. John of Salisbury (ca. 1120 1180): The Challenge of Tyranny.
12. Raymond of Peñafort (ca. 1175 1275) & William of Rennes (13th century):.
The Conditions of Just War, Self–Defense and their Legal Consequences under Penitential Jurisdiction.
13. Innocent IV (ca. 1180 1254): The Kinds of Violence and the Limits of Holy War.
14. Alexander of Hales (ca. 1185 1245): Virtuous Dispositions in Warfare.
15. Hostiensis (ca. 1200 1271): A Topology of Internal and External War.
16. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225 1274): Just War and Sins against Peace.
17. Dante Alighieri: (1265 1321): Peace by Universal Monarchy.
18. Bartolus of Saxoferrato (ca. 1313 1357): Roman War in Christendom.
19. Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364 ca. 1431): War and Chivalry.
20. Raphael Fulgosius (1367 1427): Just War Reduced to Public War.

Part III: Late Scholastic and Reformation.
21. Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466 1536): The Spurious Right to War .
22. Cajetan (1468–1534): War and Vindicative Justice.
23. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 1527): War Is Just to Whom It Is Necessary.
24. Thomas More (ca. 1478–1535): Warfare in Utopia.
25. Martin Luther (1483–1546) and Jean Calvin (1509–1564): Legitimate War in Reformed Christianity.
26. The Radical Reformation: Religious Rationales for Violence and Pacifism (16th Century).
27. Francisco de Vitoria: (ca. 1492 1546): Just War in the Age of Discovery.
28. Luis de Molina (1535 1600): Distinguishing War from Punishment.
29. Francisco Suarez (1548 1617): Justice, Charity, and War.
30. Alberico Gentili (1552 1608): The Advantages of Preventive War.
31. Johannes Althusius (1557 1638): Defending the Commonwealth.
32. Hugo Grotius (1583 1645): The Theory of Just War Systematized.

Part IV: Modern.
33. Thomas Hobbes (1588 1679): Solving the Problem of Civil War.
34. Baruch Spinoza (1632 1677): The Virtue of Peace.
35. Samuel von Pufendorf (1632 1694): War in an Emerging System of States.
36. John Locke (1632 1704): The Rights of Man and the Limits of Just Warfare.
37. Christian von Wolff (1679 1754): Bilateral Rights of War.
38. Montesquieu (1689 1755): National Self–Preservation and the Balance of Power.
39. Jean–Jacques Rousseau (1712 1778): Supranational Government and Peace.
40. Emer de Vattel (1714 1767): War in Due Form.
41. Immanuel Kant: (1724 1804): Cosmopolitan Rights, Human Progress, and Perpetual Peace.
42. G.W.F. Hegel (1770 1831): War and the Spirit of the Nation–State.
43. Carl von Clausewitz (1780 1831): Ethics and Military Strategy.
44. Daniel Webster (1782 1852): The Caroline Incident (1837).
45. Francis Lieber (1800 1872): Devising a Military Code of Conduct.
46. John Stuart Mill (1806 1873): Foreign Intervention and National Autonomy.
47. Karl Marx (1818 1883) Friedrich Engels (1820 1895): War as an Instrument of Emancipation.

Part V: 20th Century.
48. Woodrow Wilson (1856 1924): The Dream of a League of Nations.
49. Bertrand Russell (1872 1970): Pacifism and Modern War.
50. Hans Kelsen (1881 1973): Bellum Iustum in International Law.
51. Paul Ramsey (1913 1988): Nuclear Weapons and Legitimate Defense.
52. G.E.M. Anscombe (1919 2001): The Moral Recklessness of Pacifism.
53. John Rawls (1921 2002): The Moral Duties of Statesmen.
54. Michael Walzer (b. 1935): Terrorism and Ethics.
55. Thomas Nagel (b. 1937): The Logic of Hostility.
56. James Turner Johnson (b. 1938): Contemporary Just War.
57. National Conference of Catholic Bishops (1983 & 1993): A Presumption against War.
58. Kofi Annan (b. 1938): Toward a New Definition of Sovereignty.

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