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

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Ivan R. Dee, 2003 - History - 217 pages
War, Peter Temes writes, is always wrong but sometimes necessary. With that principle at its center, this book offers a critical history of just war thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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We Go to War That We May Have Peace
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The Fundamental Ideas of Just War
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The Center and
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Peter S. Temes is president of the Antioch New England Graduate School and formerly head of the Great Books Foundation. He has taught at every level of American education, including a course on the moral principles of war at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching). He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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