Morality and political violence

Summary: "Political violence in the form of wars, insurgencies, terrorism, and violent rebellion constitutes a major human challenge today as it has so often in the past. It is a challenge not only to life and limb, but also to morality itself. In this book, C.A.J. Coady brings a philosophical and ethical perspective to the subject. He places the problems of war and political violence in the frame of reflective ethics. In clear and accessible language, Coady reexamines a range of urgent problems pertinent to political violence against the background of a contemporary approach to just war thinking. The problems examined include the right to make war, the right way to conduct war, terrorism, revolution, humanitarianism, mercenary warriors, conscientious objection, combatant and noncombatant status, the ideal of peace and the right way to end war, pacifism, weapons of mass destruction, and supreme emergency exemptions from just war prohibition. Coady attempts to vindicate the relevance of the just war tradition to conternporary problems without applying the tradition in a merely mechanical or uncritical fashion."--Jacket.

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ISBN: 9780511478659
ISBN: 0511478658
ISBN: 9780511475696
ISBN: 0511475691
ISBN: 9780511477133
ISBN: 0511477139
ISBN: 6612001208
ISBN: 9786612001208
ISBN: 9781282001206
ISBN: 1282001205
ISBN: 9781107172821
ISBN: 1107172829
ISBN: 0521705487
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ISBN: 0521560004
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ISBN: 0511811586
ISBN: 9780511811586
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 317 pages)
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Staring at Armageddon -- The idea of violence -- Violence and justice -- Aggression, defence, and just cause -- Justice with prudence -- The right way to fight -- The problem of collateral damage -- The morality of terrorism -- The immunities of combatants -- Morality and the mercenary warrior -- Objecting morally -- Weapons of mass destruction -- The ideal of peace -- The issue of stringency.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.