Just War Theory raises some of the most pressing and important philosophical issues of our day. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area written by leading scholars ...and offering significant contributions to how we understand just war theory.
Logics of War Feiler, Therese
2020, 2019, 2019-12-12
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The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between ...systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G. W. F. Hegel’s and like-minded thinkers’ ‘theo–logic’ that negotiates Christ’s mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist, an idealist Christian ethicist, and finally, an evangelical theologian. Opening the just war debate for comparative critical engagement, Feiler creates a fascinating study that locates a “dynamic point” at which faithful, free political action can be wrestled from irony, tragedy, and melancholic inertia in the face of totalitarian suffocation.
Of war and law Kennedy, David; Kennedy, David
2006., 20090110, 2009, 2006, 2006-01-01
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Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a ...political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace is as legally regulated as the rest of modern life. In Of War and Law, David Kennedy examines this important development, retelling the history of modern war and statecraft as a tale of the changing role of law and the dramatic growth of law's power. Not only a restraint and an ethical yardstick, law can also be a weapon--a strategic partner, a force multiplier, and an excuse for terrifying violence. Kennedy focuses on what can go wrong when humanitarian and military planners speak the same legal language--wrong for humanitarianism, and wrong for warfare. He argues that law has beaten ploughshares into swords while encouraging the bureaucratization of strategy and leadership. A culture of rules has eroded the experience of personal decision-making and responsibility among soldiers and statesmen alike. Kennedy urges those inside and outside the military who wish to reduce the ferocity of battle to understand the new roles--and the limits--of law. Only then will we be able to revitalize our responsibility for war.
‘War is a man’s game,’ or so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly one of the driving forces behind war in the modern era. So can we end war with feminism? ...This book argues that this is possible, and is in fact already happening. Each chapter provides a solution to war using innovative examples of how feminist and queer theory and practice inform pacifist treaties, movements and methods, from the international to the domestic spheres. The contributors propose a range of solutions that include arms abolition, centring Indigenous knowledge, economic restructuring, and transforming how we ‘count’ civilian deaths. Ending war requires challenging complex structures, but the solutions found in this edition have risen to this challenge. By thinking beyond the violence of the capitalist patriarchy, this book makes the powerful case that the possibility of life without war is real.
In this, the first major philosophical study of contingent pacifism, Larry May offers a new account of pacifism from within the Just War tradition. Written in a non-technical style, the book features ...real-life examples from contemporary wars and applies a variety of approaches ranging from traditional pacifism and human rights to international law and conscientious objection. May considers a variety of thinkers and theories, including Hugo Grotius, Kant, Socrates, Seneca on restraint, Tertullian on moral purity, Erasmus's arguments against just war, and Hobbes's conception of public conscience. The guiding idea is that the possibility of a just war is conceded, but not at the current time or in the foreseeable future due to the nature of contemporary armed conflict and geopolitics - wars in the past are also unlikely to have been just wars. This volume will interest scholars and upper-level students of political philosophy, philosophy of law, and war studies.
The arc of the machine gun ahead and to his left intersected the arc of the machine gun ahead and to his right. A first burst took him high in the arm, spinning him sideways, before his ankle caught ...the rat-a-tat of another. It was 2.23 p.m. on the 27th of September, 1916, near Flers, in the valley of the Somme. Alexander Aitken rolled into a shell-hole and began his long wait.
New Zealand went to war in 1914 as part of an empire but emerged with a modern memory. So powerful has that force of remembrance been that it has obscured another history: the making of colonial ...memory. Colonial memory focused on the nineteenth-century conflicts of the 1860s: the 'Maori Wars' as they were widely known by the early twentieth century. Just months before war in Europe was declared in August 1914 large crowds of New Zealanders turned out to events marking the fiftieth anniversary of the major battles that had taken place in Waikato and Tauranga in 1864. The anniversary occasions were the culmination of efforts from various quarters in the first decade or so of the twentieth century to record a vanishing history and pay tribute to those who had sacrificed their lives in 'building the country'.
New Zealand went to war in 1914 as part of an empire but emerged with a modern memory. So powerful has that force of remembrance been that it has obscured another history: the making of colonial ...memory. Colonial memory focused on the nineteenth-century conflicts of the 1860s: the ‘Maori Wars’ as they were widely known by the early twentieth century. Just months before war in Europe was declared in August 1914 large crowds of New Zealanders turned out to events marking the fiftieth anniversary of the major battles that had taken place in Waikato and Tauranga in 1864. The anniversary occasions were the culmination of efforts from various quarters in the first decade or so of the twentieth century to record a vanishing history and pay tribute to those who had sacrificed their lives in ‘building the country’.
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