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The Morality Wars

Author : Louise Mabille,Henk Stoker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781978710870

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The Morality Wars by Louise Mabille,Henk Stoker Pdf

In The Morality Wars, contributors from religious and non-religious backgrounds debate the origin and nature of human goodness. While the subject is often addressed by prominent figures on both sides of the believer/atheist divide on public platforms and social media, participants seldom get the opportunity to explain their viewpoints in depth. In addition to engaging the traditional conflict between science and religious faith over the content and nature of the moral conscience, the contributors also draw on and engage with figures who are often neglected when committed theologians and atheists debate each other, such as Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jacques Lacan.

Morality Wars

Author : Charles Derber,Yale R. Magrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317255901

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Morality Wars by Charles Derber,Yale R. Magrass Pdf

Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality," doing evil in the name of good (e.g., Bush preemptively invading Iraq to spread liberty). The authors explore three ancient codes of immoral morality frighteningly resurrected in America today -those of empire, the politically correct, and the born again. Although the right today has recrafted historic arguments that empires bring peace, and fundamentalists battle moral decay, the authors show the Democratic Party and the left have their own IM, with Democrats supporting empire and the left its own political correctness. America's political divide today is a backlash to the progressive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s-secular, antiwar, and feminist-that created a radical break from traditional values and set the stage for current morality wars. In the spirit of de Tocqueville, this powerful book offers a rich and vivid portrait of America's political landscape, exploring ideas that can help move the nation to a new morality and politics.

Morality and War

Author : David Fisher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191615825

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With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.

Law and Morality at War

Author : Adil Ahmad Haque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199687398

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Law and Morality at War by Adil Ahmad Haque Pdf

The laws are not silent in war, but what should they say? What is the moral function of the law of armed conflict? Should the law protect civilians who do not fight but help those who do? Should the law protect soldiers who perform non-combat functions or who may be safely captured? How certain should a soldier be that an individual is a combatant rather than a civilian before using lethal force? What risks should soldiers take on themselves to avoid harming civilians? When do inaccurate weapons become unlawfully indiscriminate? When does 'collateral damage' to civilians become unlawfully disproportionate? Should civilians lose their legal rights by serving, voluntarily or involuntarily, as human shields? Finally, when should killing civilians constitute a war crime? These are the questions that Law and Morality at War answers, contributing to a cutting-edge international debate. Drawing on the concepts and methods of contemporary moral and legal philosophy, the book develops a normative framework within which the laws of war and international criminal law can be evaluated, criticized, and reformed. While several philosophical works critically examine the moral status of civilians and combatants, this book fills a gap, offering both an account of the laws of war and war crimes, and proposing how the law could be improved from a moral point of view. Finally, it explores when, if ever, the emotional pressures under which soldiers act should partially or wholly excuse their wrongful actions --Flap of book cover.

The Morality of War - Second Edition

Author : Brian Orend
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554810956

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The Morality of War - Second Edition by Brian Orend Pdf

The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second edition, Brian Orend builds on the substantial strengths of the first, adding important new material on: cyber-warfare; drone attacks; the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict). Updated and streamlined throughout, the book offers new research tools and case studies, while keeping the winning blend of theory and history featured in the first edition. This book remains an engaging and comprehensive examination of the ethics, and practice, of war and peace in today’s world.

Morality & Contemporary Warfare

Author : James Turner Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300091044

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Morality & Contemporary Warfare by James Turner Johnson Pdf

In this study, James Turner Johnson refocuses the moral analysis of war on the real problems of today's armed conflicts. He argues that moral debates about nuclear war and annihilation fail to address the problems of using of military force.

Moral Constraints on War

Author : Bruno Coppieters,N. Fotion
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0739121308

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Moral Constraints on War by Bruno Coppieters,N. Fotion Pdf

Just War Theory is becoming increasingly important to nations when they contemplate and participate in war. This book recognizes the timeliness of the topic and so seeks, in concrete historical terms, to deal with the issue of constraining war on the basis of moral principles.

Who Should Die?

Author : Ryan Jenkins,Michael Robillard,Bradley Jay Strawser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 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.

The Morality of War

Author : David Todd Kinsella,Craig L. Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X030109557

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The Morality of War by David Todd Kinsella,Craig L. Carr Pdf

?A highly useful core text for courses in the field?as well as an invaluable reference for any serious student of the ethics of war.??Albert Pierce, U.S. Naval AcademyWhen and why is war justified? How, morally speaking, should wars be fought? The Morality of War confronts these challenging questions, surveying the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it.The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing perspectives, realism and pacifism. Subsequent selections focus on issues related to the resort to war, the conduct of war, and the judgment of war crimes. Both traditional just war concerns and those that have emerged in response to contemporary developments?such as the U.S. ?war on terror??are thoroughly covered.With articles that are crucially relevant to today?s world paired with contextual introductions to each section, the reader is ideally constructed to inform and guide students as they consider the morality of past and current military actions.David Kinsella is associate professor of political science at the Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University. He is editor of International Studies Perspectives and coauthor of World Politics: The Menu for Choice. Craig L. Carr is professor of political science at the Hatfield School of Government. He is author of On Fairness and editor of The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf.

The Morality of War

Author : Brian Orend
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770481923

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The Morality of War by Brian Orend Pdf

"Brian Orend's The Morality of War promises to become the single most comprehensive and important book on just war for this generation. It moves far beyond the review of the standard just war categories to deal comprehensively with the new challenges of the conflict with terrorism. It thoughtfully reviews every major military conflict of the past few decades, mining them for implications of the evolving tradition of just war thinking. It concludes with a critical engagement with the major alternatives to just war thinking: pacifism and 'realism.' It is, in short, the most comprehensive and thoughtful assessment of all aspects of just war since Michael Walzer's classic Just and Unjust Wars." - Martin L. Cook, United States Air Force Academy

Morality Politics in Western Europe

Author : Isabelle Engeli,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Lars Thorup Larsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137016690

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Morality Politics in Western Europe by Isabelle Engeli,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Lars Thorup Larsen Pdf

Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.

The Morality of War - Second Edition

Author : Brian Orend
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770484610

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The Morality of War - Second Edition by Brian Orend Pdf

The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second edition, Brian Orend builds on the substantial strengths of the first, adding important new material on: cyber-warfare; drone attacks; the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict). Updated and streamlined throughout, the book offers new research tools and case studies, while keeping the winning blend of theory and history featured in the first edition. This book remains an engaging and comprehensive examination of the ethics, and practice, of war and peace in today’s world.

War by Agreement

Author : Yitzhak Benbaji,Daniel Statman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199577194

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War by Agreement by Yitzhak Benbaji,Daniel Statman Pdf

"War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war. It shows that wars can be morally justified at both the ad bellum level (the political decision to go to war) and the in bello level (its actual conduct by the military) by accepting a contractarian account of the rules governing war. According to this account, the rules of war are anchored in a mutually beneficial and fair agreement between the relevant players-- the purpose of which is to promote peace and to reduce the horrors of war. The book relies on the long social contract tradition and illustrates its fruitfulness in understanding and developing the morality and the law of war"--

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War

Author : Seth Lazar,Helen Frowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190876616

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War by Seth Lazar,Helen Frowe Pdf

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest, among both philosophers, legal scholars, and military experts, on the ethics of war. Due in part due to post 9/11 events, this resurgence is also due to a growing theoretical sophistication among scholars in this area. Recently there has been very influential work published on the justificaton of killing in self-defense and war, and the topic of the ethics of war is now more important than ever as a discrete field. The 28 commissioned chapters in this Handbook will present a comprehensive overview of the field as well as make significant and novel contributions, and collectively they will set the terms of the debate for the next decade. Lazar and Frowe will invite the leading scholars in the field to write on topics that are new to them, making the volume a compilation of fresh ideas rather than a rehash of earlier work. The volume will be dicided into five sections: Method, History, Resort, Conduct, and Aftermath. The contributors will be a mix of junior and senior figures, and will include well known scholars like Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan, and David Rodin.

The Morality of the Laws of War

Author : MARCELA PRIETO. RUDOLPHY
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192855473

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The Morality of the Laws of War by MARCELA PRIETO. RUDOLPHY Pdf

The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.