On War and Morality
The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ONE Violence and the Perspective of Morality; TWO Political Realism: The Challenge to Morality in International Affairs ; THREE Reason of State, Military Necessity, and Domestic Security ; FOUR St. Augustine on the Justification of War; FIVE Can War Be Morally Justified? The Just War Theory ; SIX The Killing of Innocent Persons in Wartime ; SEVEN Nuclear Deterrence: The Illusion of Security ; EIGHT The Alternative to War; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.