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

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"