| Description |
x, 294 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Part One: Preliminary Investigations -- Introduction: Pluralism and Moral Discourse -- The Lure of Self-Reflexivity -- Proceeding down the Low Road -- Terms for Interpretations of Conflict -- 1. Prior Intimations and Current Questions -- The Presumption against Harm -- Adumbrations and Approximations -- Nonmaleficence and Levels of Moral Discourse -- From Convergence to Further Inquiry -- Part Two: Roman Catholic and Protestant Approaches -- 2. The Just War and Civil Conflict: Changing Paradigms in Roman Catholic Social Ethics -- Moral Grammar in Transition -- The Classical Paradigm -- The Modern Paradigm: The Just War -- The Modern Paradigm: Civil Conflict -- Justice, Friendship, and Otherness -- 3. Catholic Pacifism in the United States: Ethical Pluralism and the Problem of Tradition -- Elements of a Pacifist Ethic -- Rights-Based Pacifism -- Iconoclastic Pacifism -- The Problem of Tradition -- 4. Pacifism and Just-War Tenets: How Do They Diverge? -- The Point of Convergence -- Theological Criticisms of Just-War Tenets -- Ethical Criticisms of Just-War Tenets -- From Divergence to Convergence -- 5. A Protestant Protest and Transvaluation -- The Protestant Principle -- Repentance and Conventional Discourse about War -- The Objectivity of God's Sovereign, Immanent Activity -- The Transformative Tension between Theology and Ethics -- A Repoeticization of War -- Part Three: The Problem of Nuclear Deterrence -- 6. Love, Intention, and Proportion: Paul Ramsey on the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence -- Deterrence, Pacifism, and the Just War -- Agape, War, and Moral Discourse -- Morality and Nuclear Deterrence -- Intention: Thin or Think? -- Conclusion -- 7. The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence: Obstacles on the Road to Coherence -- Conventional Approaches to the Morality of Deterrence -- The Success Thesis -- The Just-War Thesis -- The Anticipatory Thesis -- The Argument from "Supreme Emergency" -- The Exceptionalist Thesis -- Conclusion -- Part Four: Practical Reasoning and Public Discourse -- 8. History, Moral Discourse, and the Problem of Ideology -- History: Didactic or Ideological? -- The Grammar of American Exceptionalism -- Comparative Justice and the Law of Nature -- Intertexualism and Nonsectarian Pacifism -- Rationalization and Counterideology -- 9. On Duty, Virtue, and the Interpretation of Conflict -- Plurality and Ambiguity -- Phronesis, Memory, and Nonmaleficence -- Against Realism and Confessionalism -- Can Pacifists and Just-War Theorists Tell a Just War? -- Epilogue: Pluralism and Irony -- Notes -- Index |
| Analysis |
War Ethics |
| Notes |
'A 1990 Bross Prize winner' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-288) and index |
| Subject |
Deterrence (Strategy)
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Just war doctrine.
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Pacifism.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| LC no. |
91003044 |
| ISBN |
0226527956 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0226527964 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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