书目名称 | Kant and the End of War |
副标题 | A Critique of Just W |
编辑 | Howard Williams |
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概述 | Paperback edition includes a new preface with a discussion of recent examples |
丛书名称 | International Political Theory |
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描述 | .The paperback edition (published in 2016) includes a new preface with a discussion of recent examples..Kant stands almost unchallenged as one of the major thinkers of the European Enlightenment. This book brings the ideas of his critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what circumstances, if any, is recourse to war legally and morally justifiable? This issue was strikingly brought to the fore by the 2003 war in Iraq. The book critiques the tradition of just war thinking and suggests how international law and international relations can be viewed from an alternative perspective that aims at a more pacific system of states. Instead of seeing the theory of just war as providing a stabilizing context within which international politics can be carried out, Williams argues that the theory contributes to the current unstable international condition. The just war tradition is not the silver lining in a generally dark horizon but rather an integral feature of the dark horizon of current world politics. Kant was one of the first and most profound thinkers to moot this understanding of just war reasoning and his work remains a crucial |
出版日期 | Book 2012 |
关键词 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Immanuel Kant; intervention; Just War; morality; Peace |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360228 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-31885-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-0-230-36022-8Series ISSN 2662-6039 Series E-ISSN 2662-6047 |
issn_series | 2662-6039 |
copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012 |