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The just war
an American reflection on the morality of war in our time
By Temes, Peter S.
- ISBN
- 978-1-56663-534-9
- Publisher
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2003
Temes, president of Antioch New England Graduate School and author of Against School Reform, delivers a philosophical argument about the ethics of war; he not only wants to inform readers but to convert them as well. His cause,"a personal preoccupation" as he calls it, is just war philosophy, which both accepts war as an inevitability and provides moral imperatives"not only between right and wrong but often between wrong and wrong." Although he intends the book for academics and nonacademics, he relies heavily (b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
