One of Michael Walzer's most controversial arguments in Just and Unjust Wars is that soldiers and political leaders can override the principle of noncombatant immunity鈥攁nd even deliberately kill innocent people鈥攊f their political community faces an imminent and existentialthreat. He argues that ...
discussed in his classicJust and Unjust Wars(1977) and the more recentArguing about War(2004). His work also has concentrated on issues of nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, the welfare state, tolerance and accomodation, and the history of Jewish political thought. Other books includePolitic...
In Just and Unjust Wars, however, Michael Walzer develops a powerful critique of realism through an engagement with Thucydides. This article compares Walzer's treatment with Leo Strauss's anti-realist interpretation of Thucydides, suggesting many similarities between Walzer's approach and Strauss's. ...
《社科文献精品译库·正义与非正义战争:通过历史实例的道德论证 [Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations]》作者 [美]迈克尔·沃尔泽(MichaelWalzer)著;任辉献译,出版:社会科学文献出版社 2015.2,isbn:7509763649, 9787509763643。
And anyone needing to engage in such reflection could scarcely find a better place to start than Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. As an opponent of the Vietnam War, Walzer promised himself that he would write such a book, and it ...
Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars is one of those rare books that more than deserves the glowing praise on the back of the paperback edition. 2 Because his thoughtful analysis is so thorough, readable, and well-grounded in numerous historical examples, it provides a broad basis for ...
STEVE INSKEEP
This chapter is a retrospective of Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars (JUJW), as viewed from a distance of forty years. It considers the impact of JUJW at the time, and sets it in the context of contemporaneous events, both in the world and in philosophy: the aftermath of the ...
Just and unjust wars. Michael Walzer. basic books, New York, 1977.doi:10.1080/10357717808444657NoamInstituteChomskyInstituteInformaworldAustralian Outlook