In Defence of War / by Nigel Biggar.

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Biggar, Nigel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191652936
0191652938
1299803040
9781299803046

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261.873 23

LOC classification:

B105.W3

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Against the virus of wishful thinking; 1. Against Christian pacifism; 2. Love in war; 3. The principle of double effect: Can it survive combat?; 4. Proportionality: Lessons from the Somme and the First World War; 5. Against legal positivism and liberal individualism; 6. On not always giving the Devil benefit of law: Legality, morality, and Kosovo; 7. Constructing judgement: The case of Iraq; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Summary: Against the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk, 'In Defence of War' asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even while it is tragic and morally flawed. Recovering the early Christian tradition of just war thinking Nigel Biggar argues in favour of aggressive war in punishment of grave injustice.

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Against the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk, 'In Defence of War' asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even while it is tragic and morally flawed. Recovering the early Christian tradition of just war thinking Nigel Biggar argues in favour of aggressive war in punishment of grave injustice.

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