James Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral
restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study
of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This
scrutiny of the peace issue" in Western society covers nearly two
thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for
peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the
sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and
the Utopian world-perfecting pacifism that finds the cure for
discord among nations in the establishment of a new, more nearly
universal, and rightly constituted political order. Revealing the
historical depth of all three traditions, the book shows that
contemporary "nuclear pacifism" derives from forms of thought that
are centuries old. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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