Ethics and weapons of mass destruction : religious and secular perspectives
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge; UK; New York
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: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 533 p.
SERIES
Series Title
The ethikon series in comparative ethics
GENERAL NOTES
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Code E.Book: 2855
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Weapons of mass destruction : a brief overview / Susan B. Martin -- The international law concerning weapons of mass destruction / Paul C. Szasz -- Realist perspectives on ethical norms and weapons of mass destruction / Scott D. Sagan -- Realism and weapons of mass destruction : a consequentialist analysis / Susan B. Martin -- Natural law and weapons of mass destruction / C.A.J. Coady -- War and indeterminancy in natural law thinking / John Langan -- Liberalism : the impossibility of justifying weapons of mass destruction / Henry Shue -- A liberal perspective on deterrence and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction / Michael Walzer -- Christianity and weapons of mass destruction / Nigel Biggar -- Christian apocalypticism and weapons of mass destruction / Martin L. Cook -- Buddhist perspectives on weapons of mass destruction / David W. Chappell -- Buddhism and weapons of mass destruction : an oxymoron? / Donald K. Swearer -- Confucianism and weapons of mass destruction / Julia Ching -- "Heaven's mandate" and the concept of war in early Confucianism / Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Hinduism and the ethics of weapons of mass destruction / Katherine K. Young -- Hinduism and weapons of mass destruction : pacifist, prudential, and political / Kanti Bajpai -- Islamic ethics and weapons of mass destruction : an argument for nonproliferation / Sohail H. Hashmi -- "Do not violate the limit" : three issues in Islamic thinking on weapons of mass destruction / John Kelsay -- Judaism, war, and weapons of mass destruction / Reuven Kimelman -- Between the Bible and the Holocaust : three sources for Jewish perspectives on mass destruction / Joseph E. David -- A feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction / Carol Cohn, Sara Ruddick -- A pragmatist feminist approach to the ethics of weapons of mass destruction / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction / Robert L. Holmes -- Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction : the challenge of peace / Duane L. Cady -- Weapons of mass destruction and the limits of moral understanding : a comparative essay / Steven P. Lee.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Weapons of mass destruction -- Moral and ethical aspects.