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850603
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Holmes, Robert L.
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| Title & Author
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Pacifism : : a philosophy of nonviolence /\ Robert L. Holmes.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc,, 2017.
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xviii, 346 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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1474279821
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: 147427983X
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: 9781474279826
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: 9781474279833
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9781474279819
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9781474279840
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Reconceptualizing war -- The presumption against war -- Realism and war -- Augustine on ethics and war -- Anatomy of the just war theory -- Self-defense and the alleged moral equality of soldiers -- Just cause and the killing of innocents -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf and Iraq Wars in light of the just war theory and Western imperialism -- Kosovo -- The metaethics of pacifism -- Do pacifism and just war theory converge? -- Pacifism and humanitarian military intervention -- Terrorism, violence and nonviolence -- Existential pacifism.
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| Abstract
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In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified. Leading philosopher of nonviolence Robert Holmes contends that neither just war theory nor the rationales for recent wars (Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars) defeat that presumption, hence that war in the modern world is morally unjustified. 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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Just war doctrine.
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Nonviolence-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Pacifism.
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War-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Ethik
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Just war doctrine.
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Nonviolence-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Pacifism.
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Pazifismus
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PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Social.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies.
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War-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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172/.42
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| LC Classification
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BJ1459.5.H655 2017
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JZ5574.H655 2017
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