Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War : : A Moral and Historical Inquiry / / James Turner Johnson.
In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the history of just war tradition by analyzing significant individual thinkers, concepts, and events that influenced its development from the mid-eighteenth century to the pr...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1981 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. The Problem of Understanding Just War Tradition
- I. Approaches to the Restraint of War
- II. The Significance of History for the Restraint of War: Two Perspectives
- III. The Cultural Regulation of Violence
- IV.. Natural Law as a Language for the Ethics of War
- Part Two. Rival Conceptions of War and its Limits
- V. Perspectives on the Birth of a Tradition: The Middle Ages
- VI. The-Transition to the Modern Era
- VII. The Limited War Idea and Just War Tradition
- VIII. Historical Concepts of Total War and Just War Tradition
- Part Three. Modern War and Attempts at Restraint
- IX. The Onset of Modern War and the DevelopmentofRestraints
- X. The Just War Tradition and Contemporary War
- Select Bibliography
- Index