Description
| Product ID: | 9780198725831 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | In Defence of War |
| Authors: | Author: Nigel Biggar |
| Page Count: | 374 |
| Subjects: | Religious ethics, Religious ethics, Christianity, Warfare and defence, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Christian theology, Warfare & defence, Jurisprudence & philosophy of law |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Against the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even while it is tragic and morally flawed. Recovering the early Christian tradition of just war thinking, Nigel Biggar argues in favour of aggressive war in punishment of grave injustice. Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to justify war in practice. Peace, however, is not simple. Peace for some can leave others at peace to perpetrate mass atrocity. What was peace for the West in 1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. Therefore, against the virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though tragic and morally flawed. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-10-23 |