War and the politics of ethics /

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zehfuss, Maja (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
War > Moral and ethical aspects.
Political ethics.
Guerre > Aspect moral.
Morale politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Military policy
Political ethics
War > Moral and ethical aspects
Western countries > Military policy.
Occident > Politique militaire.
Western countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; War and the Politics of Ethics; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Rise of Ethical War; 1.2 Plan of the Book; 2: The Paradox of Ethical War and the Politics of Ethics; 2.1 The Paradox of Ethical War; 2.2 Negotiating the Paradox: Just War Thinking; 2.3 The Legitimation of War; 2.4 The Tragedy of Death and the Aporia of Responsibility; 2.5 War and the Politics of Ethics; 2.6 Conclusion; 3: Targeting: Precision Bombing and the Production of Ethics; 3.1 In Praise of Precision; 3.2 Precision in Practice
  • 3.3 Precision and Protection3.4 Precision and the Production of Ethics; 3.5 Drone Warfare and the Promise of Precision; 3.6 Conclusion; 4: Culture: Knowledge of the People as Technology of Ethics; 4.1 The Rise of Culture: Towards a Battle for the People; 4.2 Culture in Practice: The Counterinsurgency Manual; 4.3 Social Scientists into War: The Human Terrain System; 4.4 The People as the Battlefield; 4.5 Social Science: Objective Knowledge as Technology of Ethics; 4.6 Conclusion; 5: Ethics Education: Ethics as Ethos and the Impossibly Good Soldier; 5.1 Forces for Good; 5.2 Making Good Soldiers
  • 5.3 Good Soldiers, Good War?5.4 Virtue Ethics and the Impossibly Good Soldier; 5.5 Conclusion; 6: The Politics of War at the Limits of Ethics; 6.1 The Seduction of Ethics; 6.2 Responding within Ethics; 6.3 Responding at the Limits of Ethics; 6.4 Conclusion; References; Index

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