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Johnson Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War
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A Moral and Historical Inquiry
E-Book, Englisch, 418 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5556-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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 present.
Originally published in 1981.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. xxi
I. Approaches to the Restraint of War, pg. 3
II. The Significance of History for the Restraint of War: Two Perspectives, pg. 19
III. The Cultural Regulation of Violence, pg. 41
IV. Natural Law as a Language for the Ethics of War, pg. 85
V. Perspectives on the Birth of a Tradition: The Middle Ages, pg. 121
VI. The-Transition to the Modern Era, pg. 172
VII. The Limited War Idea and Just War Tradition, pg. 190
VIII. Historical Concepts of Total War and Just War Tradition, pg. 229
IX. The Onset of Modern War and the DevelopmentofRestraints, pg. 281
X. The Just War Tradition and Contemporary War, pg. 327
Select Bibliography, pg. 367
Index, pg. 377
