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Morality and War - Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century? (Paperback)
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Morality and War - Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century? (Paperback)
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With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the
need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct
and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent
revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval
theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David
Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed
to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical
challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral
scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of
moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality;
and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide
practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to
ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral
decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here
characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the
importance of both the internal quality and external effects of
agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact
them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher
uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the
changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the
morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He
concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust
but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of
the twenty-first century.
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