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The ethics of war: classic and contemporary readings
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Publication Date
2006
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English
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Part I. Ancient and Early Christian:
1. Thucydides: war and power
2. Plato: Tempering war among the Greeks
3. Aristotle: Courage, slavery, and citizen soldiers
4. Roman law of war and peace: Ius fetiale
5. Cicero: Civic virtue as the foundation of peace
6. Early Church fathers: Pacifism and defense of the innocent
7. Augustine: Just war in the service of peace
Part II. Medieval:
8. Medieval peace movements: Religious limitations on warfare
9. The Crusades: Christian holy war
10. Gratian and the Decretists: War and coercion in the Decretum
11. John of Salisbury: The challenge of tyranny
12. Raymond of Peñafort and William of Rennes: The conditions of just war, self-defense, and their legal consequences under penitential jurisdiction
13. Innocent IV: The kinds of violence and the limits of holy war
14. Alexander of Hales: Virtuous dispositions in warfare
15. Hostiensis: A typology of internal and external war
16. Thomas Aquinas: Just war and sins against peace
17. Dante Alighieri: Peace by universal monarchy
18. Bartolus of Saxoferrato: Roman war within Christendom
19. Christine de Pizan: War and chivalry
20. Raphaël Fulgosius: Just war reduced to public war
Part III. Late Scholastic and Reformation:
21. Erasmus of Rotterdam: The spurious "right to war"
22. Cajetan: War and vindicative justice
23. Niccolò Machiavelli: War is just to whom it is necessary
24. Thomas More: Warfare in Utopia
25. Martin Luther and Jean Calvin: Legitimate war in Reformed Christianity
26. The Radical Reformation: Religious rationales for violence and pacifism
27. Francisco de Vitoria: Just war in the age of discovery
28. Luis de Molina: Distinguishing war from punishment
29. Francisco Suárez: Justice, charity, and war
30. Alberico Gentili: The advantages of preventive war
31. Johannes Althusius: Defending the commonwealth
32. Hugo Grotius: The theory of just war systematized
Part V. Modern:
33. Thomas Hobbes: Solving the problem of civil war
34. Baruch Spinoza: The virtue of peace
35. Samuel von Pufendorf: War in an emerging system of states
36. John Locke: The rights of man and the limits of just warfare
37. Christian von Wolff: Bilateral rights of war
38. Montesquieu: National self-preservation and the balance of power
39. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Supranational government and peace
40. Emer de Vattel: War in due form
41. Immaneul Kant: Cosmopolitan rights, human progress, and perpetual peace
42. G.W.F. Hegel: War and the spirit of the nation-state
43. Carl von Clausewitz: ethics and military strategy 44. Daniel Webster: The Caroline incident
45. Francis Lieber: Devising a military code of conduct
46. John Stuart Mill: Foreign intervention and national autonomy
47. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: War as an instrument of emancipation
Part V. Twentieth Century:
48. Woodrow Wilson: The dream of a league of nations
49. Bertrand Russell: Pacifism and modern war
50. Hans Kelsen: Bellum iustum in international law
51. Paul Ramsey: Nuclear weapons and legitimate defense
52. G.E.M. Anscombe:
The moral recklessness of pacifism
53. John Rawls: The moral duties of statesmen
54. Michael Walzer: Terrorism and ethics
55. Thomas Nagel: The logic of hostility
56. James Turner Johnson: Contemporary just war
57. National Conference of Catholic Bishops: A presumption against war
58. Kofi Annan: Toward a new definition of sovereignty.
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140512377
9781405123785
9781405123785
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