War Is Hell
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War Is Hell

Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence

  1. 253 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

War Is Hell

Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence

About this book

War is Hell is a study of the philosophy of war and peace, ranging critically from ancient peace thinking to today. The author uses a Socratic method, focused on political philosophy rather than on cultural or psychological aspects of war and peace making. The book is not a treatise on ethics, but rather an analysis of some aspects of the nature of war and peace.
This book is a study of war – and by extension, peace – from the standpoint of political theory. For all those who think there is too much war, and to deal with that we need to search for new ways of thinking.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Peace as the Original Position
  6. The Violent State
  7. Godlike Violence
  8. Distance and Distance-Collapse
  9. (Just) War Is Hell: Part I
  10. A Container for a Universal Solvent: (Just) War Is Hell: Part II
  11. The Ecstasy of War?
  12. SuperLeviathan: A Peaceful Use of Hell?
  13. SuperLeviathan Now
  14. Japan’s Impossible Constitution
  15. Article 9 Meets Humpty Dumpty
  16. Commonsense Peace
  17. Final Rumination
  18. Appendix
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. World Social Change