A History of Military Morals: Killing the Innocent

Author:   Brian Smith
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   138
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Pages:   490
Publication Date:   21 April 2022
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Author:   Brian Smith
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   138
Weight:   0.953kg
ISBN:  

9789004513433


ISBN 10:   9004513434
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   21 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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List of Figures Introduction  1 Introduction  2 Theory of Moral Development  3 Methodology  4 Overview of Chapters PART 1: Killing the Innocent: Three Discursive Traditions from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 1 The Origins of Double Effect: The Scholastic Tradition  1 Recovering the Primitive Christian Tradition  2 Before Double Effect  3 The Rise of Double Effect  4 Killing the Innocent  5 Killing the Innocent after Aquinas  6 Repurposing Double Effect in the Sixteenth Century  7 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scholastics on Siege Warfare  8 English and Scottish Protestants  9 Conclusion 2 Martialists: Soldiers and Tacticians  1 Introduction  2 Early Martialists  3 Seventeenth-Century Martialists  4 Shifts in the Martialist Tradition  5 Conclusion 3 Humanists and Republicans  1 Introduction  2 Machiavelli  3 Erasmus  4 Gentili  5 Grotius  6 Pufendorf  7 Jeremy Taylor  8 George Dawson  9 Christian Wolff  10 Vattel  11 Conclusion PART 2: The Nineteenth Century 4 Killing Noncombatants in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 Counting Casualties  3 Noncombatants  4 Sovereignty and Self-Preservation  5 Utilitarianism  6 The Link between Philosophical Utilitarianism and Military Necessity  7 Conclusion 5 Deliberately Targeting Noncombatants  1 Introduction  2 Enduring the Hardships of War: Laying Waste  3 Laying Waste and the Laws of War  4 Starvation and Blockades  5 Sieges  6 Siege and the Laws of War  7 Reprisal, Retaliation, Retorsion  8 Change in Norms  9 The Spatial Dimension of Noncombatant Death  10 Noncombatant Death in the Early Twentieth Century  11 Military Manuals  12 Conclusion PART 3: The Twentieth Century: Aerial Bombing and a Shift in Norms 6 New Possibilities and Problems: Aeronauts, Inventors, and Future-War Fiction on Aerial Bombing  1 Early Experiments  2 Deterrence, Annihilation, or Nonfactor?  3 Future-War Fiction  4 Conclusion 7 Interwar Approaches to Bombing: Two Discursive Traditions  1 Introduction  2 Interwar Period Debates on Aerial Bombing  3 International Liberals: Regulation and Disarmament  4 Bombing Realists  5 Strategic versus Terror Bombing  6 Conclusion 8 The Return to Intention: Post World War I  1 Introduction  2 German Guilt  3 The Laws of Humanity and Intentional Harm  4 The Return of the Scholastics  5 The Rediscovery of Vitoria and Suarez  6 Catholics against Bombing  7 Conclusion 9 Postscript: Intention in the Twenty-First Century  1 Introduction  2 Intention and Folk Psychology  3 Are Intentions Relevant for Twenty-First Century War? Bibliography of Primary Sources 445  Prior to the Sixteenth Century  The Sixteenth Century  The Seventeenth Century  The Eighteenth Century  The Nineteenth Century Index

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Brian Smith, Ph.D. (2016), Boston University, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University. He has published many articles on intellectual history and a monograph, John Locke, Territory, and Transmigration (Routledge, 2021).

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