International Ethics : : A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader / / Lawrence A. Alexander; ed. by Charles R. Beitz.

This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1986
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF SKEPTICISM
  • Moral Skepticism and International Relations
  • PART II. MORALITY AND THE RULES OF WAR
  • War and Massacre
  • Conventions and the Morality of War
  • War and Innocence
  • Self-Defense and the Killing of Noncombatants: A Reply to Fullinwider
  • PART III. DETERRENCE ETHICS
  • Missiles and Morals: A Utilitarian Look at Nuclear Deterrence
  • Doubts About Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
  • Disarmament Revisited: A Reply to Kavka and Hardin
  • PART IV. THE MORAL STATUS OF THE NATION-STATE
  • The Rights of Political Communities (excerpts from Just and Unjust Wars)
  • Just War and Human Rights
  • The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics
  • The Romance of the Nation-State
  • PART V. INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIANISM AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
  • Famine, Affluence, and Morality
  • Lifeboat Earth
  • Justice and International Relations
  • The Contributors