David FisherMorality and War
Can War Be Just in the Twenty-First Century?
David Fisher was born in England in 1936 and emigrated to Canada in 1958. He has had a deep and on-going interest in communication and language since 1966 when he worked with Inuit on Baffin Island. He attended university in the 1970's and 80's and was granted degrees in Social Work and a Ph.D. in Psychology. He has studied the inter-relatedness of language, personality, relationships and spirituality since 1981. He continues to provide counseling to individuals and couples and lead a small meditation group. On most days he manages to do at least some gardening. He lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia. He and his former wife, Kyra, have two children, Petra and Adrian. David and Kyra maintain a warm friendship.
Introduction
Part 1: Morality
1: War Without Morality
2: Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
3: Virtues and Consequences
4: The Just War Tradition
5: Is Non-combatant Immunity Absolute?
6: Virtues
7: Virtuous consequentialism
Part II: War
8: The Protean Nature of War
9: Extreme Times, Extreme Measures
10: Gulf Wars
11: Humanitarian Intervention
12: Making War Just
