From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality

ISBN-13: 9780367885595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Kevin Carnahan

Opis

For the last several decades, the Just War debate amongst theologians has been dominated by two accounts of moral rationality. One side assumes a presumption against harm (PAH), and the other identifies with a presumption against injustice (PAI). From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality argues that the time has come to leave

Recenzje

"From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality moves the debate about PAI and PAH forward in interesting ways, and assists in the process of de-centering this particular conversation to make room for new and creative thinking about the ethics of warfare. It is a text for specialists and those conversant with the just war tradition, and would be particularly interesting to discuss in upper level or graduate courses in philosophical and theological virtue ethics."
- Anna Floerke Schneid, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania

"Kevin Carnahan is one of an increasing number of voices that detect a rift in just war thinking between two alternative visions of the tradition, namely those resting on a presumption against harm (PAH) and on a presumption against injustice (PAI) [...] Carnahan offers an insightful remedy to the perceived stalemate in recent debates between these two, in the form of a virtue-oriented approach."
- Jeremy S. Stirm

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 The Limits of Moral Clarity: Against the PAI; 2 An Unbearable Burden: Against the PAH; 3 The Imitation of Christ and the Resort To Violence; 4 Prudence and Just-War Thinking; Conclusion

O autorze

Kevin Carnahan is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religion at Central Methodist University, USA. He has written one book and multiple articles on the subject of Just War and is currently a co-editor for the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.