Interpretations of conflict : ethics, pacifism, and the just-war tradition /
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Author / Creator: | Miller, Richard Brian, 1953- |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991. |
Description: | x, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | War -- Moral and ethical aspects Pacifism Just war doctrine Deterrence (Strategy) Deterrence (Strategy) Just war doctrine. Pacifism. War -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1218417 |
Summary: | With today's world torn by violence and conflict, Richard B.<br> Miller's study of the ethics of war could not be more timely.<br> Miller brings together the opposed traditions of pacifism and<br> just-war theory and puts them into a much-needed dialogue<br> on the ethics of war.<br> <br> Beginning with the duty of nonviolence as a point of<br> convergence between the two rival traditions, Miller provides<br> an opportunity for pacifists and just-war theorists to refine<br> their views in a dialectical exchange over a set of ethical<br> and social questions. From the interface of these two long-<br> standing and seemingly incompatible traditions emerges a<br> surprisingly fruitful discussion over a common set of values,<br> problems, and interests: the presumption against harm, the<br> relation of justice and order, the ethics of civil<br> disobedience, the problem of self-righteousness in moral<br> discourse about war, the ethics of nuclear deterrence, and<br> the need for practical reasoning about the morality of war.<br> Miller pays critical attention to thinkers such as Augustine<br> and Thomas Aquinas, as well as to modern thinkers like H.<br> Richard Niebuhr, Paul Ramsey, Martin Luther King, Jr., James<br> Douglass, the Berrigans, William O'Brien, Michael Walzer, and<br> James Childress. He demonstrates how pacifism and just-war<br> tenets can be joined around both theoretical and practical<br> issues.<br> <br> Interpretations of Conflict is a work of massive<br> scholarship and careful reasoning that should interest<br> philosophers, theologians, and religious ethicists alike. It<br> enhances our moral literacy about injury, suffering, and<br> killing, and offers a compelling dialectical approach to<br> ethics in a pluralistic society.<br> <br> Richard B. Miller is assistant professor of religious<br> studies at Indiana University. |
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Physical Description: | x, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0226527964 (paper : acid-free paper) : $17.95 (est.) 0226527956 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $48.00 (est.) |