| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 53099 | | Doc. No | : | TL23053 | | Call number | : | 1439545 | | Main Entry | : | Peter J. Monopoli, III | | Title & Author | : | American exceptionalism: A consequentialist attempt at justifying preventive war with IraqPeter J. Monopoli, III | | College | : | University of Houston | | Date | : | 2006 | | Degree | : | M.A. | | student score | : | 2006 | | Page No | : | 74 | | Abstract | : | I start with an explanation of American exceptionalism and preventive war and their relationship with the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq. I then extract a possible consequentialist justification for exceptionalism and prevention from David Luban's article "Preventive War." The consequentialist justification is contrasted with a strict nonconsequentialist prohibition of preventive war given by Michael Walzer in Just War: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. While I suggest that there is an impassible divide between Luban's consequentialist justification and Walzer's nonconsequentialist prohibition, a bridge between consequentialist and nonconsequentialist thought on just war is built by taking a rule utilitarian approach. I argue that by taking such an approach, (1) consequentialists and nonconsequentialists are supplied with a practical solution to their major disagreements and (2) the possible consequentialist justification for preventive war taken from Luban is refuted. | | Subject | : | Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Philosophy; International law; International relations; 0422:Philosophy; 0616:International relations; 0616:International law | | Added Entry | : | W. Nelson | | Added Entry | : | University of Houston |
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