Morality and war : can war be just in the twenty-first century?
- Title
- Morality and war : can war be just in the twenty-first century? / David Fisher.
- Published by
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- vii, 303 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. Morality and War 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Part one: Morality. War without morality -- Whose justice? Which rationality? -- Virtues and consequences -- The just war tradition -- Is non-combatant immunity absolute? -- Virtues -- Virtuous consequentialism -- Part Two: War. The protean nature of war -- Extreme times, extreme measures -- Gulf wars -- Humanitarian intervention -- Making war just.
- Call number
- JFE 16-4992
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-295) and index.
- Author
- Fisher, David, 1947-2014.
- Title
- Morality and war : can war be just in the twenty-first century? / David Fisher.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-295) and index.
- Chronological term
- 2000 - 2099
- LCCN
- 2010937007
- ISBN
- 9780199599240 (hardback ; alk. paper)
- 0199599246 (hardback ; alk. paper)
- 9780199661053 (pbk.)
- 0199661057 (pbk.)
- Research call number
- JFE 16-4992