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Book Public War  Private Conscience

Download or read book Public War Private Conscience written by Andrew Fiala and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public War, Private Conscience offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing a clear and accessible overview of the different ways of thinking about war. Engaging both with contemporary examples and historical ideas about war, the book offers unique analysis of issues relating to terrorism, conscience objection, just war theory and pacifism. Andrew Fiala examines the conflict between utilitarian and deontological points of view. On the one hand, wars are part of the project of public welfare, subject to utilitarian evaluation. On the other hand, war is also subject to deontological judgment that takes seriously the importance of private conscience and human rights. This book argues that the conflict between these divergent approaches is unavoidable. We are continually caught in the tragic conflict between these two values: public happiness and private morality. And it is in war that we find the conflict at its most obvious and most disturbing.

Book The Conscience Wars

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  • Author : Susanna Mancini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1107173302
  • Pages : 515 pages

Download or read book The Conscience Wars written by Susanna Mancini and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

Book Private Conscience and Public Law

Download or read book Private Conscience and Public Law written by Richard J. Regan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England

Download or read book Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England written by Giuseppina Iacono Lobo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Revolutions of Conscience -- 1 Charles I, Eikon Basilike, and the Pulpit-Work of the King's Conscience -- 2 Oliver Cromwell and the Duties of Conscience -- 3 Early Quaker Writing and the Unifying Light of Conscience -- 4 Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the Civilizing Force of Conscience -- 5 Lucy Hutchinson's Revisions of Conscience -- 6 Milton's Nation of Conscience -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Book Living with War

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  • Author : Robert Teigrob
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442612509
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Living with War written by Robert Teigrob and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides of the 49th parallel.

Book Fear  Exclusion and Revolution

Download or read book Fear Exclusion and Revolution written by Jason McElligott and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1677 and 1691 the puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of the day-to-day public affairs in Britain. His 'Entering Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious hist

Book Can War Be Justified

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  • Author : Andrew Fiala
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 1000835480
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Can War Be Justified written by Andrew Fiala and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can war be justified? Pacifists answer that it cannot; they oppose war and advocate for nonviolent alternatives to war. But defenders of just war theory argue that in some circumstances, when the effectiveness of nonviolence is limited, wars can be justified. In this book, two philosophers debate this question, drawing on contemporary scholarship and new developments in thinking about pacifism and just war theory. Andrew Fiala defends the pacifist position, while Jennifer Kling defends just war traditions. Fiala argues that pacifism follows from the awful reality of war and the nonviolent goal of building a more just and peaceful world. Kling argues that war is sometimes justified when it is a last-ditch, necessary effort to defend people and their communities from utter destruction and death. Pulling from global traditions and histories, their debate will captivate anyone who has wondered or worried about the morality of political violence and military force. Topics discussed include ethical questions of self-defense and other-defense, the great analogy between individuals and states, evolving technologies and methods of warfighting, moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, broader political and communal issues, and the problem of regional security in a globalizing world. The authors consider cultural and religious issues as well as the fundamental question of moral obligation in a world saturated in military conflict. The book was written in the aftermath of the war on terrorism and includes reflection on lessons learned from the past decades of war, as well as hopes for the future in light of emerging threats in Europe and elsewhere. The book is organized in a user-friendly fashion. Each author presents a self-contained argument, which is followed by a series of responses, replies, and counter-arguments. Throughout, the authors model civil discourse by emphasizing points of agreement and remaining areas of disagreement. The book includes reader-friendly summaries, a glossary of key concepts, and suggestions for further study. All of this will help students and scholars follow the authors’ dialogue so they may develop their own answer to the question of whether war can be justified. Key Features Summarizes the debate between pacifism and just war theory Considers historical and traditional sources as well as contemporary scholarship and applications Models philosophical dialogue and civil discourse, while seeking common ground Discusses issues of concern in contemporary warfighting and peacemaking, while offering an analysis of the war on terrorism

Book Conscience and Conviction

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  • Author : Kimberley Brownlee
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2012-10-18
  • ISBN : 0191645923
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Conscience and Conviction written by Kimberley Brownlee and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection. Part I explores the morality of conviction and conscience. Each of these concepts informs a distinct argument for civil disobedience. The conviction argument begins with the communicative principle of conscientiousness (CPC). According to the CPC, having a conscientious moral conviction means not just acting consistently with our beliefs and judging ourselves and others by a common moral standard. It also means not seeking to evade the consequences of our beliefs and being willing to communicate them to others. The conviction argument shows that, as a constrained, communicative practice, civil disobedience has a better claim than private objection does to the protections that liberal societies give to conscientious dissent. This view reverses the standard liberal picture which sees private 'conscientious' objection as a modest act of personal belief and civil disobedience as a strategic, undemocratic act whose costs are only sometimes worth bearing. The conscience argument is narrower and shows that genuinely morally responsive civil disobedience honours the best of our moral responsibilities and is protected by a duty-based moral right of conscience. Part II translates the conviction argument and conscience argument into two legal defences. The first is a demands-of-conviction defence. The second is a necessity defence. Both of these defences apply more readily to civil disobedience than to private disobedience. Part II also examines lawful punishment, showing that, even when punishment is justifiable, civil disobedients have a moral right not to be punished. Oxford Legal Philosophy publishes the best new work in philosophically-oriented legal theory. It commissions and solicits monographs in all branches of the subject, including works on philosophical issues in all areas of public and private law, and in the national, transnational, and international realms; studies of the nature of law, legal institutions, and legal reasoning; treatments of problems in political morality as they bear on law; and explorations in the nature and development of legal philosophy itself. The series represents diverse traditions of thought but always with an emphasis on rigour and originality. It sets the standard in contemporary jurisprudence.

Book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

Download or read book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Affairs

Download or read book Public Affairs written by William M. Hammond and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.

Book Placing Private Conscience in Early Modern England

Download or read book Placing Private Conscience in Early Modern England written by Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissent  Voices of Conscience

Download or read book Dissent Voices of Conscience written by Ann Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

Book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641

Download or read book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641  Volume I

Download or read book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 Volume I written by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of Volume 1 of the Earl of Clarendon's The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by William Dunn Macray. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Book Conscience in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Conscience in Early Modern English Literature written by Abraham Stoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.