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The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Pragmatic Approach to Just War

By Colm McKeogh (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-1-349-25893-2, 978-1-349-25891-8, 978-0-312-17629-7
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25891-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26036745 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 180\187
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Political Theory;Political Philosophy;Political Sc

Description

Reinhold Niebuhr rose to prominenece in the 1930s and 1940s for his vociferous opposition both to Nazism and to isolationism as an American response to that threat. He rejected both pacifism and the legalism of the just war tradition. His pragmatic and realist approach to the ethics of force eschews absolute rules or restrictions. The work examines Niebuhr's consequentialist approach to ethics and war from the perspective of political theory.

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