On War and Morality

Summary: The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of ""respectability"" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed.

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ISBN: 1400860148
ISBN: 9781400860142
Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages).
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Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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