Sohail H. Hashmi / Steven P. Lee (eds.)

Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Religious and Secular Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hashmi, Sohail H.; Lee, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a unique perspective on the discussion of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by broadening the terms of the debate to include secular as well as religious investigations not normally considered. Its contributed essays feature a structured dialogue between representatives of the following ethical traditions-- Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, feminism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, liberalism, natural law, pacifism, and realism--who address identical moral issues in order to create a dialogue both within and across traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780521545266
• ISBN-10: 0521545269
• Artikelnr.: 21867065

Autorenporträt

Sohail H. Hashmi is Alumnae Foundation Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College.
Steven P. Lee is Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction Sohail H.
Hashmi and Steven P. Lee; 1. Weapons of mass destruction: a brief overview
Susan B. Martin; 2. The international law concerning weapons of mass
destruction Paul C. Szasz; Part I. The Original Debate: 3. Realist
perspectives on ethical norms and weapons of mass destruction Scott D.
Sagan; 4. Realism and weapons of mass destruction: a consequentialist
analysis Susan B. Martin; 5. Natural law and weapons of mass destruction C.
A. J. Coady; 6. War and indeterminacy in natural law thinking John Langan
S.J.; 7. Liberalism: the impossibility of justifying weapons of mass
destruction Henry Shue; 8. A liberal perspective on deterrence and
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Michael Walzer; 9.
Christianity and weapons of mass destruction Nigel Biggar; 10. Christian
apocalypticism and weapons of mass destruction Martin L. Cook; Part II.
Expanding the Conversation: 11. Buddhist perspectives on weapons of mass
destruction David W. Chappell; 12. Buddhism and weapons of mass
destruction: an oxymoron? Donald K. Swearer; 13. Confucianism and weapons
of mass destruction Julia Ching; 14. 'Heaven's Mandate' and the concept of
war in early Confucianism Philip J. Ivanhoe; 15. Hinduism and the ethics of
weapons of mass destruction Katherine K. Young; 16. Hinduism and weapons of
mass destruction: pacifist, prudential and political Kanti Bajpai; 17.
Islamic ethics and weapons of mass destruction: an argument for
nonproliferation Sohail H. Hashmi; 18. 'Do not violate the limit': three
issues in Islamic thinking on weapons of mass destruction John Kelsay; 19.
Judaism, war and weapons of mass destruction Reuven Kimelman; 20. Between
the Bible and the Holocaust: three sources for Jewish perspectives on mass
destruction Joseph E. David; Part III. Critical Perspectives: 21. A
feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction Carol Cohn and
Sara Ruddick; 22. A pragmatist feminist approach to the ethics of weapons
of mass destruction Lucinda Joy Peach; 23. Pacifism and weapons of mass
destruction Robert L. Holmes; 24. Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction:
the challenge of peace Duane L. Cady; 25. Weapons of mass destruction and
the limits of moral understanding: a comparative essay Steven P. Lee;
Contributors; Index.