Postmodern Morals, Ends, and Means: Shifting Ideas About Why, How, and for Whom Wars are Fought

by Command and General Staff College and United States Army Command and General Staff College

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During the postmodern era moral reasoning on why and how nations fight has shifted. The just war tradition was founded during the fourth century in a system of thought based on natural law as defined by the Christian conception of God. This moral construct served as a means of valuing both humanitarian concerns and state sovereignty. Then, during the Enlightenment era, modernist thinkers removed God as a metaphysical basis of the just war tradition,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1503176290

ISBN13:9781503176294

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Length:50 Pages

Weight:0.31 lbs.

Dimensions:0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"

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