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The Just War - Force and Political Responsibility (Paperback, New edition)
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The Just War - Force and Political Responsibility (Paperback, New edition)
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Recent conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf War of the 1990s and the
war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 show that the idea
of what constitutes a 'just war' remains a crucial issue in
politics and ethics today. With a new foreword by noted theologian
and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the
ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam
era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. In defending
just war against Christian pacifism and arguing against those who
maintain that the end justifies the means in the conduct of a war,
Ramsey joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its
antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Ramsey
argues that decisions regarding war must be governed by 'political
prudence.' Whether a particular war should be fought, and at what
level of violence, depends, Ramsey writes, on one's count of the
moral costs and benefits. Characterized by a sophisticated yet
back-to-basics approach, his analysis begins with the assumption
that force is a fact in political life which must either be
reckoned with or succumbed to. He then grapples with modern
challenges to traditional moral principles of 'just conduct' in
war, the 'morality of deterrence, ' and a 'just war theory of
statecraft.
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