The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History

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James Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This scrutiny of the peace issue in Western society covers nearly two thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and the Utopian...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691077428

ISBN13:9780691077420

Release Date:July 1987

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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