Pacifism A Philosophy of Nonviolence

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I Reconceptualizing war..........3 The presumption against war.......25 Realism and war.........53 Part II Augustine on ethics and war............69 Anatomy of the just war theory............95 Self-defense and the alleged moral equality of soldiers........117 Just cause and the killing of Innocents.........145 Part III the vietnam war ........167 The gulf and Iraq wars in light of the Just war Theory and Western Imperialism ...........201 Kosovo..........219 Part IV The metaethics of Pacifism.........235 Do pacifism and just war theory converge?...........259 Part V Pacifism and humanitarian military intervention............273 Terrorism, Violence and Nonviolence...........299 Existential Pacifism............315