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Title The ethics of war : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Gregory M. Reichberg, Henrik Syse, and Endre Begby
Published Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006

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Description xxii, 731 pages ; 26 cm
Contents Part I. Ancient and Early Christian: -- 1. Thucydides: war and power -- 2. Plato: Tempering war among the Greeks -- 3. Aristotle: Courage, slavery, and citizen soldiers -- 4. Roman law of war and peace: Ius fetiale -- 5. Cicero: Civic virtue as the foundation of peace -- 6. Early Church fathers: Pacifism and defense of the innocent -- 7. Augustine: Just war in the service of peace -- Part II. Medieval: -- 8. Medieval peace movements: Religious limitations on warfare -- 9. The Crusades: Christian holy war -- 10. Gratian and the Decretists: War and coercion in the Decretum -- 11. John of Salisbury: The challenge of tyranny -- 12. Raymond of Peñafort and William of Rennes: The conditions of just war, self-defense, and their legal consequences under penitential jurisdiction -- 13. Innocent IV: The kinds of violence and the limits of holy war -- 14. Alexander of Hales: Virtuous dispositions in warfare -- 15. Hostiensis: A typology of internal and external war -- 16. Thomas Aquinas: Just war and sins against peace -- 17. Dante Alighieri: Peace by universal monarchy -- 18. Bartolus of Saxoferrato: Roman war within Christendom -- 19. Christine de Pizan: War and chivalry -- 20. Raphaël Fulgosius: Just war reduced to public war -- Part III. Late Scholastic and
Reformation: -- 21. Erasmus of Rotterdam: The spurious "right to war" -- 22. Cajetan: War and vindicative justice -- 23. Niccolò Machiavelli: War is just to whom it is necessary -- 24. Thomas More: Warfare in Utopia -- 25. Martin Luther and Jean Calvin: Legitimate war in Reformed Christianity -- 26. The Radical Reformation: Religious rationales for violence and pacifism -- 27. Francisco de Vitoria: Just war in the age of discovery -- 28. Luis de Molina: Distinguishing war from punishment -- 29. Francisco Suárez: Justice, charity, and war -- 30. Alberico Gentili: The advantages of preventive war -- 31. Johannes Althusius: Defending the commonwealth -- 32. Hugo Grotius: The theory of just war systematized -- Part V. Modern: -- 33. Thomas Hobbes: Solving the problem of civil war -- 34. Baruch Spinoza: The virtue of peace -- 35. Samuel von Pufendorf: War in an emerging system of states -- 36. John Locke: The rights of man and the limits of just warfare -- 37. Christian von Wolff: Bilateral rights of war -- 38. Montesquieu: National self-preservation and the balance of power -- 39. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Supranational government and peace -- 40. Emer de Vattel: War in due form -- 41. Immaneul Kant: Cosmopolitan rights, human progress, and perpetual peace -- 42
tion: -- 21. Erasmus of Rotterdam: The spurious "right to war" -- 22. Cajetan: War and vindicative justice -- 23. Niccolò Machiavelli: War is just to whom it is necessary -- 24. Thomas More: Warfare in Utopia -- 25. Martin Luther and Jean Calvin: Legitimate war in Reformed Christianity -- 26. The Radical Reformation: Religious rationales for violence and pacifism -- 27. Francisco de Vitoria: Just war in the age of discovery -- 28. Luis de Molina: Distinguishing war from punishment -- 29. Francisco Suárez: Justice, charity, and war -- 30. Alberico Gentili: The advantages of preventive war -- 31. Johannes Althusius: Defending the commonwealth -- 32. Hugo Grotius: The theory of just war systematized -- Part V. Modern: -- 33. Thomas Hobbes: Solving the problem of civil war -- 34. Baruch Spinoza: The virtue of peace -- 35. Samuel von Pufendorf: War in an emerging system of states -- 36. John Locke: The rights of man and the limits of just warfare -- 37. Christian von Wolff:
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Military ethics.
Author Reichberg, Gregory M.
Syse, Henrik, 1966-
Begby, Endre.
LC no. 2005037647
ISBN 140512377X hardback alkaline paper
1405123788 paperback alkaline paper