Beyond Just War: A Virtue Ethics Approach

Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?'

Author: Claudia Card, D. Chan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/29/2012
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137263407

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013

About the Author
DAVID K. CHAN is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, USA, where he has taught since 2001. He earned his doctorate in philosophy at Stanford University. His scholarly research and writing is in moral psychology, virtue ethics, the ethics of war, medical ethics, and ancient Greek philosophy.