On War and Morality.
Author / Creator: | Holmes, Robert L. |
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Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Studies in moral, political, and legal philosophy. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275443 |
Summary: | 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 nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "respectability" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed and concerned readers, he raises dramatic questions about the concepts of "political realism" and nuclear deterrence, makes a number of persuasive suggestions for nonviolent alternatives to war, and presents a rich panorama of thinking about war from St. Augustine to Reinhold Niebuhr and Herman Kahn. |
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Item Description: | Cover; Contents. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781400860142 1400860148 |