Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence
Autor Professor Robert L. Holmesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2016
A detailed, comprehensive and elegantly argued text which guides both students and scholars through the main debates (Just War Theory and double effect to name a few) clearly but without oversimplifying the complexities of the issues or historical examples.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781474279826
ISBN-10: 1474279821
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1474279821
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Introduction
PART 1
Chapter 1: Reconceptualizing War
1.1 Absolute War
1.2 The Interests of the People, the State, and the People Who Rule the State.
1.3 Absolute Violence
1.4 Between War and Peace
1.5 Cyber War and Robotics
1.6 Toward an Ontology of War
1.7 Paradoxes of War
1.8 War, Warfare, and Warmaking
1.9 Synoptic War
Chapter 2: The Presumption Against War
2.1 The Ends of Morality and Warfare
2.2 War and Killing
2.3 Act Types and Act Tokens
2.4 The Presumptive Wrongness of Deliberately Killing Persons
2.5 Is Wrongdoing Inescapable?
2.6 The Presumptive Wrongness of War
Chapter 3: Realism and War
3.1 Positive and Nonpositive Realism
3.2 Descriptive, Necessitarian, and Normative Realism
3.3 Can it be Immoral to Act Morally?
3.4 War and Morality
3.5 Value Language and Deontic Language
3.6 Synoptic War Neither Right Nor Wrong.
3.7 Warfare Always Subject to Moral Assessment
3.8 Micro and Macro Ethics
3.9 Collective Ethics a Category Mistake
PART 2
Chapter 4: Augustine on Ethics and War
4.1 Augustine and the Just War Tradition
4.2 Was Augustine a Personal Pacifist?
4.3 Augustine's Subjectivism
4.4 Motives and Right Conduct
4.5 Personal Pacifism and Clean Hands
4.6 Augustine's Authoritarianism
4.7 Killing Out of Obedience
Chapter 5: Anatomy of the Just War Theory
5.1 The Just War Tradition and Just War Theory
5.2 Moral War Theory
5.3 Just War Internalism and Externalism
5.4 What Does Jus Ad Bellum Entitle One to Do?
5.5 Intention, Double Effect, and Deliberate Wartime Killing.
5.6 Right Intention and the Resort to War.
5.7 Right Intention and Individual Combatants.
5.8 Just War Theory's Further Implications.
5.9 License to Kill
Chapter 6: Self-Defense and the Alleged Moral Equality of Soldiers
6.1. War and Self-Defense
6.2 A Walzerian Argument for the Moral Equality of Soldiers.
6.3 Personal Self-Defense.
6.4 Self-Defense as a Moral Concept.
6.5 Self-Defense and the Presumptive Wrongness of Killing.
6.6 Personal and Collective Self-Defense.
6.7 Defending a Common Life.
6.8 Self-defense and Liability.
6.9 Self-defense and Just Cause
6.10 Potential Soldiers and Their "Epistemic Duties"
Chapter 7: Just Cause and the Killing of Innocents
7.1 Killing Innocents Inherent in Warfare
7.2 Killing and Letting Die
7.3 Intentional and Foreseeable Killing.
7.4 The Counterfactual Test
7.5 A Differential Restriction
7.6 Incidental Harm?
7.7 Hypothetical Cases
7.8 Does a Just Cause permit Killing Innocents?
7.9 The Nazi and the Just Warrior
7.10 The Infringement and Disrespectful Violation of Rights.
7.11 Do Good Motives Suffice?
Part 3
Chapter 8: The Vietnam War
8.1 Vietnam a Turning Point for America
8.2 The Indochina War
8.3 The Creation of South Vietnam
8.4 Beginning of the Vietnam War
8.5 External Aggression or Civil War?
8.6 The Nature of the War
8.7 My Lai Unexceptional
8.8 Does Vietnam Defeat the Presumption Against War?
8.9 "Revisionist" History
Chapter 9: The Gulf and Iraq Wars in Light of Western Imperialism and Just War Theory
9.1 Continuity Between the Gulf War and the Iraq War
9.2 Western Imperialism in the Persian Gulf
9.3 A Monroe Doctrine for the Persian Gulf
9.4 The Gulf War and Just War Theory
9.5 Was the Gulf War a Last Resort?
9.6 Just War Theory Modified
Chapter 10: Kosovo
10.1 The Gulf War and the Kosovo Intervention
10.2 Historical Context
10.3 Civil Conflict
10.4 An Attempted Military Solution
10.5 Illegal NATO Intervention
10.6 The Killing of Civilians
10.7 The Moral Issue
PART 4
Chapter 11: The Metaethics of Pacifism
11.1 The Argument Continued
11.2 Actionable Wrongness
11.3 Pragmatic Pacifism
11.4 A Theoretical Objection to Pacifism
11.5 A Pacifist Rejoinder
11.6 A Second Pacifist Rejoinder
11.7 Consequentialist Considerations
11.8 Act Utilitarianism
11.9 Some Implications
11.10 Mediated and Unmediated Consequences
Chapter 12: Pacifism and Humanitarian Military Intervention
12.1 The Plight of Individuals Worldwide.
12.2 What is Humanitarian Intervention?
12.3 Why is Humanitarian Intervention Problematic?
12.4 Rights versus Sovereignty
12.5 The Responsibility to Protect
12.6 The Problem for Pacifism
12.7 Epistemic Problems with Humanitarian Military Intervention
12.8 Military Intervention
12.9 War, Just War Theory, and Humanitarian Intervention
12.10 "Humanitarian" intervention in the Real World
Chapter 13: Terrorism, Violence, and Nonviolence
13.1 What Is Terrorism?
13.2 Stereotyping
13.3 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents
13.4 Militarization of the Campaign Against Terrorism
13.5 The Violence of War and Terrorism
Chapter 14: Toward a Nonviolent World Order
14.1 Pragmatic Contextualism
14.2 Support of Troops
14.3 Troops and Their Mission
14.4 Patriotism
14.5 Existential Pacifism
14.6 Transforming Young People into Trained Killers
14.7 Logic and War
14.8 Consequences and Proportionality
14.9 Motives and Intentions Again
14.10 A Secular Garden of Eden
14.11 Bringing Good out of Evil
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
PART 1
Chapter 1: Reconceptualizing War
1.1 Absolute War
1.2 The Interests of the People, the State, and the People Who Rule the State.
1.3 Absolute Violence
1.4 Between War and Peace
1.5 Cyber War and Robotics
1.6 Toward an Ontology of War
1.7 Paradoxes of War
1.8 War, Warfare, and Warmaking
1.9 Synoptic War
Chapter 2: The Presumption Against War
2.1 The Ends of Morality and Warfare
2.2 War and Killing
2.3 Act Types and Act Tokens
2.4 The Presumptive Wrongness of Deliberately Killing Persons
2.5 Is Wrongdoing Inescapable?
2.6 The Presumptive Wrongness of War
Chapter 3: Realism and War
3.1 Positive and Nonpositive Realism
3.2 Descriptive, Necessitarian, and Normative Realism
3.3 Can it be Immoral to Act Morally?
3.4 War and Morality
3.5 Value Language and Deontic Language
3.6 Synoptic War Neither Right Nor Wrong.
3.7 Warfare Always Subject to Moral Assessment
3.8 Micro and Macro Ethics
3.9 Collective Ethics a Category Mistake
PART 2
Chapter 4: Augustine on Ethics and War
4.1 Augustine and the Just War Tradition
4.2 Was Augustine a Personal Pacifist?
4.3 Augustine's Subjectivism
4.4 Motives and Right Conduct
4.5 Personal Pacifism and Clean Hands
4.6 Augustine's Authoritarianism
4.7 Killing Out of Obedience
Chapter 5: Anatomy of the Just War Theory
5.1 The Just War Tradition and Just War Theory
5.2 Moral War Theory
5.3 Just War Internalism and Externalism
5.4 What Does Jus Ad Bellum Entitle One to Do?
5.5 Intention, Double Effect, and Deliberate Wartime Killing.
5.6 Right Intention and the Resort to War.
5.7 Right Intention and Individual Combatants.
5.8 Just War Theory's Further Implications.
5.9 License to Kill
Chapter 6: Self-Defense and the Alleged Moral Equality of Soldiers
6.1. War and Self-Defense
6.2 A Walzerian Argument for the Moral Equality of Soldiers.
6.3 Personal Self-Defense.
6.4 Self-Defense as a Moral Concept.
6.5 Self-Defense and the Presumptive Wrongness of Killing.
6.6 Personal and Collective Self-Defense.
6.7 Defending a Common Life.
6.8 Self-defense and Liability.
6.9 Self-defense and Just Cause
6.10 Potential Soldiers and Their "Epistemic Duties"
Chapter 7: Just Cause and the Killing of Innocents
7.1 Killing Innocents Inherent in Warfare
7.2 Killing and Letting Die
7.3 Intentional and Foreseeable Killing.
7.4 The Counterfactual Test
7.5 A Differential Restriction
7.6 Incidental Harm?
7.7 Hypothetical Cases
7.8 Does a Just Cause permit Killing Innocents?
7.9 The Nazi and the Just Warrior
7.10 The Infringement and Disrespectful Violation of Rights.
7.11 Do Good Motives Suffice?
Part 3
Chapter 8: The Vietnam War
8.1 Vietnam a Turning Point for America
8.2 The Indochina War
8.3 The Creation of South Vietnam
8.4 Beginning of the Vietnam War
8.5 External Aggression or Civil War?
8.6 The Nature of the War
8.7 My Lai Unexceptional
8.8 Does Vietnam Defeat the Presumption Against War?
8.9 "Revisionist" History
Chapter 9: The Gulf and Iraq Wars in Light of Western Imperialism and Just War Theory
9.1 Continuity Between the Gulf War and the Iraq War
9.2 Western Imperialism in the Persian Gulf
9.3 A Monroe Doctrine for the Persian Gulf
9.4 The Gulf War and Just War Theory
9.5 Was the Gulf War a Last Resort?
9.6 Just War Theory Modified
Chapter 10: Kosovo
10.1 The Gulf War and the Kosovo Intervention
10.2 Historical Context
10.3 Civil Conflict
10.4 An Attempted Military Solution
10.5 Illegal NATO Intervention
10.6 The Killing of Civilians
10.7 The Moral Issue
PART 4
Chapter 11: The Metaethics of Pacifism
11.1 The Argument Continued
11.2 Actionable Wrongness
11.3 Pragmatic Pacifism
11.4 A Theoretical Objection to Pacifism
11.5 A Pacifist Rejoinder
11.6 A Second Pacifist Rejoinder
11.7 Consequentialist Considerations
11.8 Act Utilitarianism
11.9 Some Implications
11.10 Mediated and Unmediated Consequences
Chapter 12: Pacifism and Humanitarian Military Intervention
12.1 The Plight of Individuals Worldwide.
12.2 What is Humanitarian Intervention?
12.3 Why is Humanitarian Intervention Problematic?
12.4 Rights versus Sovereignty
12.5 The Responsibility to Protect
12.6 The Problem for Pacifism
12.7 Epistemic Problems with Humanitarian Military Intervention
12.8 Military Intervention
12.9 War, Just War Theory, and Humanitarian Intervention
12.10 "Humanitarian" intervention in the Real World
Chapter 13: Terrorism, Violence, and Nonviolence
13.1 What Is Terrorism?
13.2 Stereotyping
13.3 Terrorism and the Killing of Innocents
13.4 Militarization of the Campaign Against Terrorism
13.5 The Violence of War and Terrorism
Chapter 14: Toward a Nonviolent World Order
14.1 Pragmatic Contextualism
14.2 Support of Troops
14.3 Troops and Their Mission
14.4 Patriotism
14.5 Existential Pacifism
14.6 Transforming Young People into Trained Killers
14.7 Logic and War
14.8 Consequences and Proportionality
14.9 Motives and Intentions Again
14.10 A Secular Garden of Eden
14.11 Bringing Good out of Evil
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Robert L. Holmes has been one of those who never lost sight of war's importance and the urgency of crafting alternatives . His new book will be a reference point for all further discussions of the topic.
Robert Holme's Pacifism provides a reasoned, careful, and sustained argument against war. It is deeply grounded in the scholarship. It provides fresh insight into historical cases and it confronts some of the most difficult topics in thinking about the morality of war: humanitarian intervention, terrorism, and the right of self defense. The arguments of this book must be confronted by anyone who wants to claim that war can be justified.
Pacifism is a most comprehensible, accessible and well-argued work on the philosophy of war. Over 40 years ago Robert L. Holmes introduced the notion of conditional pacifism, the view that one can morally and rationally oppose specific wars or specific sorts or war without adopting absolute pacifism. Over the decades Holmes' published views on war developed into both pragmatic pacifism and existential pacifism: general moral opposition to actual modern warfare and personal opposition to warfare based on conscience. These pacifist positions are rationally supported by Holmes' pragmatic contextualism, an ethic that avoids moral absolutes including the pitfalls of Just War Theory and utilitarianism. Holmes also addresses the weakness of war realism, noting that modern war is increasingly irrational as well as immoral as evidenced by recent wars in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Kosovo and our notions of humanitarian intervention and terrorism. As life in our warfare state commits us to seemingly never-ending war, we ignore Holmes' arguments at our national peril.
Starting from broadly accepted moral principles, Holmes develops an account of pacifism as a practical approach to addressing and ending the scourge of war. Clear-eyed, philosophically sophisticated and historically informed, this is a fine book.
Holmes' Pacifism has both rehabilitated the study of pacifism, and made an indispensable contribution to the debate on the justification of war and warfare. Everyone who reads the book will be better able to imagine pacifism and nonviolence ... All readers will find the book an interesting, eloquently written, and thought-provoking introduction to the growing field of pacifism and warism.
Robert Holme's Pacifism provides a reasoned, careful, and sustained argument against war. It is deeply grounded in the scholarship. It provides fresh insight into historical cases and it confronts some of the most difficult topics in thinking about the morality of war: humanitarian intervention, terrorism, and the right of self defense. The arguments of this book must be confronted by anyone who wants to claim that war can be justified.
Pacifism is a most comprehensible, accessible and well-argued work on the philosophy of war. Over 40 years ago Robert L. Holmes introduced the notion of conditional pacifism, the view that one can morally and rationally oppose specific wars or specific sorts or war without adopting absolute pacifism. Over the decades Holmes' published views on war developed into both pragmatic pacifism and existential pacifism: general moral opposition to actual modern warfare and personal opposition to warfare based on conscience. These pacifist positions are rationally supported by Holmes' pragmatic contextualism, an ethic that avoids moral absolutes including the pitfalls of Just War Theory and utilitarianism. Holmes also addresses the weakness of war realism, noting that modern war is increasingly irrational as well as immoral as evidenced by recent wars in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Kosovo and our notions of humanitarian intervention and terrorism. As life in our warfare state commits us to seemingly never-ending war, we ignore Holmes' arguments at our national peril.
Starting from broadly accepted moral principles, Holmes develops an account of pacifism as a practical approach to addressing and ending the scourge of war. Clear-eyed, philosophically sophisticated and historically informed, this is a fine book.
Holmes' Pacifism has both rehabilitated the study of pacifism, and made an indispensable contribution to the debate on the justification of war and warfare. Everyone who reads the book will be better able to imagine pacifism and nonviolence ... All readers will find the book an interesting, eloquently written, and thought-provoking introduction to the growing field of pacifism and warism.