Preventing Unjust War

Author : Roger Bergman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532686658

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Preventing Unjust War by Roger Bergman Pdf

Catholic pacifists blame the just war tradition of their Church. That tradition, they say, can be invoked to justify any war, and so it must be jettisoned. This book argues that the problem is not the just war tradition but the unjust war tradition. Ambitious rulers start wars that cannot be justified, and yet warriors continue to fight them. The problem is the belief that warriors do not hold any responsibility for judging the justice of the wars they are ordered to fight. However unjust, a command renders any war “just” for the obedient warrior. This book argues that selective conscientious objection, the right and duty to refuse to fight unjust wars, is the solution. Strengthening the just war tradition depends on a heightened role for the personal conscience of the warrior. That in turn depends on a heightened role for the Church in forming and supporting consciences and judging the justice of particular wars. As Saint Augustine wrote, “The wise man will wage just wars. . . . For, unless the wars were just, he would not have to wage them, and in such circumstances he would not be involved in war at all.”

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977-12-19
Category : Just war doctrine
ISBN : UCAL:B4281603

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Just And Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer Pdf

This classic work examines the issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war from the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai massacre.

Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191563461

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Killing in War by Jeff McMahan Pdf

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.

Author : Caron E. Gentry,Amy E. Eckert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820339504

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The Future of Just War by Caron E. Gentry,Amy E. Eckert Pdf

Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition's ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting. The essays in The Future of Just War seek to reorient the tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. The pursuit of these challenges involves both a reclaiming of traditional Just War principles from those who would push it toward greater permissiveness with respect to war, as well as the application of Just War principles to emerging issues, such as the growing use of robotics in war or the privatization of force. These essays share a commitment to the idea that the tradition is more about a rigorous application of Just War principles than the satisfaction of a checklist of criteria to be met before waging “just” war in the service of national interest.

Author : John Howard Yoder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579107819

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When War Is Unjust, Second Edition by John Howard Yoder Pdf

Can a war really be considered justÓ? If so, which wars, and under what circumstances? If not, why not? When War is Unjust provides a systematic exploration of these questions for students of ethics, Christian doctrine, and history. For centuries the just war tradition has been the dominant framework for Christian thinking about organized conflict. This tradition sets a number of specific conditions which must be satisfied before a particular war can termed justÓ and therefore supportable by the faithful Christians. John Howard Yoder, himself a pacifist, approaches the just war theory on its own terms. His purpose: to introduce the student to this just-war tradition, and to offer a critical framework for evaluating its tenets and applying them to real conflicts. When War is Unjust takes the just war tradition seriously, and holds its proponents accountable in a critical debate about when - if ever - war can be justified. It is a readable and thought-provoking primer on the history, criteria, and application of just war teaching in Christian churches.

Author : Inis L. Claude
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349098262

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States and the Global System by Inis L. Claude Pdf

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300127713

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Arguing About War by Michael Walzer Pdf

Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts and the ethical issues they raise.The essays in the book are divided into three sections. The first deals with issues such as humanitarian intervention, emergency ethics, and terrorism. The second consists of Walzer’s responses to particular wars, including the first Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And the third presents an essay in which Walzer imagines a future in which war might play a less significant part in our lives. In his introduction, Walzer reveals how his thinking has changed over time.Written during a period of intense debate over the proper use of armed force, this book gets to the heart of difficult problems and argues persuasively for a moral perspective on war.

Author : Roger C. Bergman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823233281

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Catholic Social Learning by Roger C. Bergman Pdf

The canon for Catholic social teaching spreads to six hundred pages, yet fewer than two pages are devoted to Catholic social learning or pedagogy. In this long-needed book, Roger Bergman begins to correct that gross imbalance. He asks: How do we educate (lead out) the faith that does justice? How is commitment to social justice provoked and sustained over a lifetime? To address these questions, Bergman weaves what he has learned from thirty years as a faith-that-does-justice educator with the best of current scholarship and historical authorities. He reflects on personal experience; the experience of Church leaders, lay activists, and university students; and the few words the tradition itself has to say about a pedagogy for justice.Catholic Social Learning explores the foundations of this pedagogy, demonstrates its practical applications, and illuminates why and how it is fundamental to Catholic higher education. Part I identifies personal encounters with the poor and marginalized as key to stimulating a hunger and thirst for justice. Part II presents three applications of Catholic social learning: cross-cultural immersion as illustrated by Creighton University's Semestre Dominicano program; community-based service learning; and the teaching of moral exemplars such as Dorothy Day, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Archbishop Oscar Romero. Part III then elucidates how a pedagogy for justice applies to the traditional liberal educational mission of the Catholic university, and how it can be put into action.Catholic Social Learning is both a valuable, practical resource for Christian educators and an important step forward in the development of a transformative pedagogy.

Author : David Rodin,Henry Shue
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191615627

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Just and Unjust Warriors by David Rodin,Henry Shue Pdf

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war - that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are fighting in a war that just or unjust - against a set of striking new arguments. These arguments challenge the idea that there is a separation between the rules governing the justice of going to war (the jus ad bellum) and the rules governing what combatants can do in war (the jus in bello). If ad bellum and in bello rules are connected in the way these new arguments suggest, then many aspects of just war theory and laws of war would have to be rethought and perhaps reformed. This book contains eleven original and closely argued essays by leading figures in the ethics and laws of war and provides an authoritative treatment of this important new debate. The essays both challenge and defend many deeply held convictions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of aggression, about the nature and justifiability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between soldiers and states, and the relationship between the ethics of war and the ethics of ordinary life. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521765688

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The Ethics of Preventive War by Deen K. Chatterjee Pdf

The book examines the complex and contested moral and legal issues of preventive warfare.

Author : Robert Monteith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590692086

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Discourse on the shedding of blood and the laws of war [by R. Monteith. Ed. by J. Monteith]. by Robert Monteith Pdf

Author : Steven P. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521898836

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Ethics and War by Steven P. Lee Pdf

An account of war ethics sensitive to the historical just war theory, informed by the contemporary concerns of war.

Author : Franziska Quabeck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110301113

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Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare by Franziska Quabeck Pdf

The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in chronological order, brings to light that the drama includes an elaborate and complex debate of the ethical issues of warfare. The plays that feature in this analysis range from Henry VI to Coriolanus and they are analysed according to the three Aquinian principles of legitimate authority, just cause and right intention. Also extending the principles of analysis to more modern notions of responsibility, proportionality and the jus in bello-presupposition, this monograph shows that just war theory constitutes a dominant theoretical approach to war in the Shakespearean canon.

Author : Claire Finkelstein,Jens David Ohlin,Andrew Altman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191625909

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Targeted Killings by Claire Finkelstein,Jens David Ohlin,Andrew Altman Pdf

The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare. The protracted battle against a non-state organization, the demise of the confinement of hostilities to an identifiable battlefield, the extensive involvement of civilian combatants, and the development of new and more precise military technologies have all conspired to require a rethinking of the law and morality of war. Just war theory, as traditionally articulated, seems ill-suited to justify many of the practices of the war on terror. The raid against Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani compound was the highest profile example of this strategy, but the issues raised by this technique cast a far broader net: every week the U.S. military and CIA launch remotely piloted drones to track suspected terrorists in hopes of launching a missile strike against them. In addition to the public condemnation that these attacks have generated in some countries, the legal and moral basis for the use of this technique is problematic. Is the U.S. government correct that nations attacked by terrorists have the right to respond in self-defense by targeting specific terrorists for summary killing? Is there a limit to who can legitimately be placed on the list? There is also widespread disagreement about whether suspected terrorists should be considered combatants subject to the risk of lawful killing under the laws of war or civilians protected by international humanitarian law. Complicating the moral and legal calculus is the fact that innocent bystanders are often killed or injured in these attacks. This book addresses these issues. Featuring chapters by an unrivalled set of experts, it discusses all aspects of targeted killing, making it unmissable reading for anyone interested in the implications of this practice.

Author : Ryan Jenkins,Michael Robillard,Bradley Jay Strawser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190495657

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Who Should Die? by Ryan Jenkins,Michael Robillard,Bradley Jay Strawser Pdf

"This academic text brings together, in one volume, the most recent and innovative accounts of liability in war. It offers a "who's who" of contemporary scholars working on and rigorously debating the major ethical questions surrounding self-defense and killing in war, including: liability to harm, rights theory, selective conscientious objection, obligations toward civilians, and autonomous weapons. This volume pulls together, expands upon, and provides new and updated analyses of the concept of liability (and related concepts) that have yet to be captured in a single work. As a convenient and authoritative collection of such discussions, this title is uniquely and well suited for university-level teaching and as a scholarly reference for ethicists, policymakers, and other stakeholders."--Provided by publisher.