| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Series |
War, Conflict and Ethics |
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War, conflict and ethics.
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| Contents |
880-01 Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgments; Notes on citation styles and Romanization; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 Varieties of statecraft and warfare ethics in early China: an overview; PART I The military strategy tradition; 2 The Art of War corpus and Chinese just war ethics past and present; 3 Warfare ethics in Sunzi's Art of War? Historical controversies and contemporary perspectives; PART II The Confucian tradition; 4 The classical Confucian position on the legitimate use of military force |
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880-01/$1 5 Classical Confucianism, punitive expeditions, and humanitarian intervention6 Xunzi's moral analysis of war and some of its contemporary implications; 7 Wang Yang-ming's ethics of war; PART III The Daoist, Mohist, and Legalist traditions; 8 "Weapons are nothing but ominous instruments": the Daodejing's view on war and peace; 9 Zheng (征) as zheng (正)? A Daoist challenge to punitive expeditions; 10 Mohist arguments on war; 11 Legalism and offensive realism in the Chinese court debate on defending national security 81 BCE; General index; Citation index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Just war doctrine -- Case studies
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Military ethics -- China -- History -- To 1500
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Philosophy, Chinese -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
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War (Philosophy) -- History -- To 1500
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Just war doctrine.
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Military ethics.
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Philosophy, Chinese.
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War (Philosophy)
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China.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luo, Ping-cheung, editor
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Twiss, Sumner B., editor
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| ISBN |
9781315740706 |
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1315740702 |
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9781317580966 |
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1317580966 |
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9781317580973 |
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9781317580959 |
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1317580974 |
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1317580958 |
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