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. Nigel Biggar is Regius PrWhat was peace for the West in 1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. And aspiring to practical realism, it argues that love and the doctrine of double effect can survive combat; and that the constraints of proportionality, while real, are nevertheless sufficiently permissive to encompass Britain's belligerency in 1914-18. Less cynical and more empirically realistic about human nature than Hobbes, it holds that nations desire to be morally virtuous and right, and not only to be safe and fat. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Therefore, against the virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though tragic and morally flawed.Recovering the Christian tradition of reflection running from Augustine to Grotius, this book affirms aggressive war in punis
- Title : In Defence of War
- Author : Nigel Biggar
- Rating : 4.70 (757 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-2-29
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 374 Pages
- Asin : 0198725833
- Language : English
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