Just war and ordered liberty / Paul D. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Paul David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Just war doctrine.

War (Philosophy).

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

United States--Military policy--21st century--Case studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

When is war just? What does justice require? If we lack a commonly-accepted understanding of justice - and thus of just war - what answers can we find in the intellectual history of just war? Miller argues that just war thinking should be understood as unfolding in three traditions: the Augustinian, the Westphalian, and the Liberal, each resting on distinct understandings of natural law, justice, and sovereignty. The central ideas of the Augustinian tradition (sovereignty as responsibility for the common good) can and should be recovered and worked into the Liberal tradition, for which human rights serves the same function. In this reconstructed Augustinian Liberal vision, the violent disruption of ordered liberty is the injury in response to which force may be used and war may be justly waged. Justice requires the vindication and restoration of ordered liberty in, through, and after warfare.

Contents:

Thinking about war

The Augustinian tradition

The transition

The Westphalian tradition

Competing visions of a liberal tradition

Augustinian liberalism

Just war and ordered liberty

Case studies

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).

ISBN:

9781108892414

1108892418

9781108890779

1108890776

9781108876544

1108876544

OCLC:

1164824395