Public War, Private Conscience: The Ethics of Political Violence
Autor Andrew Fialaen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441182814
ISBN-10: 1441182810
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1441182810
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Offers unique insight into the ethics of war by showing how the work of historical philosophical thinkers such as Kant, Mill and Hegel are useful to contemporary discussions in the field.
Notă biografică
Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002), Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy.
Cuprins
Introduction1. The Sublime Grind of Ares 2. The War of Public and Private3. Plato's Prophecy and Kant's Dream4. Democratic Control and Professional Ethics5. The Military Establishment6. The Democratic Peace Myth: From Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad7. The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War8. American Ambivalence: Militarism, Pacificism and Pragmatism 9. Sliding Scales and the Mischief of War10. Waterboarding, Torture and Violence11. Conscientious Refusal and the Liberal Tradition12. Public Myths and Private ProtestBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
"Fiala explores the relation between the public and the private, the state and the individual, and war and peace with philosophical rigor and clarity. His writing is superb, and the views he defends demand to be taken seriously. This is an urgent and important contribution to our on-going attempts to understand the human condition-a condition marked as much by violence and atrocity as it is by acts of kindness and generosity." - J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College, USA
"The Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant, complained that the doctrine of 'justifiable war' provides little more than comfort to war-mongers. In this eloquent new essay, Andrew Fiala explores the dimensions of 'comfort' that our own Kantian convictions regarding the moral superiority of democracy and human rights provide when coupled with a 'grinding utilitarian logic' justifying the public use of deadly force in their furtherance. Surveying philosophical reflections on war from Plato, Kant, Bentham and Hegel to Hanna Arendt, John Rawls, and Michael Walzer, Fiala issues his own provocative challenges to our perpetual justification of our war-making and war-fighting, and examines, from Hiroshima to Baghdad, the private tragedy that war, as the 'sublime dance of cosmos and chaos', invariably reveals itself to be." - George R. Lucas, Jr., Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair of Ethics, U.S. Naval Academy, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
'This very readable work gives a valuable overview of philosophical attempts over the centuries to analyse war and how the state's logic of war is at odds with the moral logic of the individual' - Morning Star
There is much to admire here, and Fiala's historical analysis of philosophical thinking about war is nuanced and interesting.
"The Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant, complained that the doctrine of 'justifiable war' provides little more than comfort to war-mongers. In this eloquent new essay, Andrew Fiala explores the dimensions of 'comfort' that our own Kantian convictions regarding the moral superiority of democracy and human rights provide when coupled with a 'grinding utilitarian logic' justifying the public use of deadly force in their furtherance. Surveying philosophical reflections on war from Plato, Kant, Bentham and Hegel to Hanna Arendt, John Rawls, and Michael Walzer, Fiala issues his own provocative challenges to our perpetual justification of our war-making and war-fighting, and examines, from Hiroshima to Baghdad, the private tragedy that war, as the 'sublime dance of cosmos and chaos', invariably reveals itself to be." - George R. Lucas, Jr., Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair of Ethics, U.S. Naval Academy, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
'This very readable work gives a valuable overview of philosophical attempts over the centuries to analyse war and how the state's logic of war is at odds with the moral logic of the individual' - Morning Star
There is much to admire here, and Fiala's historical analysis of philosophical thinking about war is nuanced and interesting.