TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holmes,Robert L.
TI  - On War and Morality
T2  - Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
SN  - 9781400860142
AV  - U22 
U1  - 172.42 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - War
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Guerre
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Contents; 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
N2  - 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
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