Waging war : a new philosophical introduction / Ian Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Ian, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

viii, 157 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones. In this re-written version of the author's classic text, Waging War, Ian Clark asks probing questions about how we think about war, the changes it is undergoing, and what exactly it is we wage when we wage war. Waging War argues that much of what passes for ethical debate is actually a set of disagreements about what counts as war or not. This philosophical introduction provides a critical review of the various different ways in which the ethical debates are already framed, the questions that arise from these debates, and seeks to bring greater clarity and precision to the important moral arguments about political violence. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Ethics and the Philosophy of War 1

2 War: Concept and Conduct 13

3 Concepts of Just War 33

4 Concepts of Limited War 51

5 War and Political Violence 69

6 War: Symmetries and Asymmetries 95

7 War, Technology, and Conceptual Change 115

8 Ethics and the Practice of War 137.

ISBN:

9780198724667

9780198724650

OCLC:

908396954