Author: Holmes, Robert L.
Title: On War and Morality
Description: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black and light blue dj with white lettering, mylar cover; xiii, 310 pp. " The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "respectability" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed and concerned readers, he raises dramatic questions about the concepts of "political realism" and nuclear deterrence, makes a number of persuasive suggestions for nonviolent alternatives to war, and presents a rich panorama of thinking about war from St. Augustine to Reinhold Niebuhr and Herman Kahn. Holmes's positions are compellingly presented and will provoke discussion both among convinced pacifists and among those whom he calls "militarists." "Militarists," we realize after reading this book, include the majority of us who live a friendly and peaceful personal life while supporting a system which, if Holmes is correct, guarantees war and risks eventual human extinction."- dust jacket. Contents: Violence and the perspective of morality -- Political realism -- Reason of state, military necessity, and domestic security -- St. Augustine on the justification of war -- Can war be morally justified? -- Killing of innocent persons in wartime -- Nuclear deterrence -- Alternative to war. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise very clean.) .
Keywords: Military History ; Morality, War ; ;
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Title: On War and Morality
Description: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black and light blue dj with white lettering, mylar cover; xiii, 310 pp. " The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "respectability" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed and concerned readers, he raises dramatic questions about the concepts of "political realism" and nuclear deterrence, makes a number of persuasive suggestions for nonviolent alternatives to war, and presents a rich panorama of thinking about war from St. Augustine to Reinhold Niebuhr and Herman Kahn. Holmes's positions are compellingly presented and will provoke discussion both among convinced pacifists and among those whom he calls "militarists." "Militarists," we realize after reading this book, include the majority of us who live a friendly and peaceful personal life while supporting a system which, if Holmes is correct, guarantees war and risks eventual human extinction."- dust jacket. Contents: Violence and the perspective of morality -- Political realism -- Reason of state, military necessity, and domestic security -- St. Augustine on the justification of war -- Can war be morally justified? -- Killing of innocent persons in wartime -- Nuclear deterrence -- Alternative to war. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise very clean.) .
Keywords: Military History ; Morality, War ; ;
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 184509
- Book number: 184509
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