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

1st ed. 1997

by Colm McKeogh

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 1349258938

ISBN-13 9781349258932

Edition 1st ed. 1997

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 1997

Print length 180 Pages

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy Political science & theory

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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. The work examines Niebuhr's consequentialist approach to ethics and war from the perspective of political theory.

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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