The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time - Softcover

...Reading and discussing The Just War seems almost necessary. * San Francisco Chronicle * Timely and intelligent commentary. . . . The book's chief gift is its empowerment of the reader to make informed moral observations on future wars. * Publishers Weekly * With this timely book Peter Temes . . . cuts through the usual polemics about a subject as urgent and complex as it is timeless. . . . A truly admirable book. -- Sidney Hyman Lucidly and intensely Temes engages us in a carefully reasoned, historically rooted, evocative drive to justify war in terms that serve modern conditions. -- Lewis M. Feldstein, chair of Harvard University's Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement and president, The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation In this lucid and clearly written book, Peter Temes provides a thorough and balanced assessment of Just War thinking from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives. -- George Lucas, Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law, U.S. Naval Academy Should be a required reading for those who beat war's drum. * The Virginia Quarterly Review * Challeng[es] us to form a new moral view of war. * Tampa Tribune * The author takes a new look at 'just war theory.' * Forecast * Temes's philosophical synthesis is nuanced and impressive. * Booklist * More than just a history . . . considers the idea of 'just war thinking' . . . probing the philosophy behind justifications for war. * Midwest Book Review * The book [is] the best single work on the subject of Just War that I have read in the past 20 years. -- Major Arthur Gans * Canadian Military Journal *

A critical history of Just War thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Temes's book proposes a radically new vision, one that respects the received tradition but takes account of the moral experience of the world today.