Journal article
In defence of war
- Abstract:
- This essay falls into two parts. In the first I offer a panorama of my book, In Defence of War (Oxford University Press, 2013), highlighting its main features. These comprise: its rhetorical position; its opposition to the “the virus of wishful thinking”, pacifism, legal positivism, and liberal individualism; and its promotion of the early Christian tradition of just war reasoning and of three kinds of realism – moral-ontological, Augustinian-anthropological, and practical. Then in the second part, I consider four controversial issues that the book raises: love, proportionality, Britain's entry into the First World War, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/nbfr.12117
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- New Blackfriars: a review, edited by the Dominicans of the English Province More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-09-05
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1741-2005
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2016-05-11
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- Copyright holder:
- The Dominican Council
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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accepted manuscript of a journal article published by Wiley in New Blackfriars on 2014-12-18, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12117
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