Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue: An Essay in Aristotelian Ethics

by G. Scott Davis, Jacob L. Goodson (Foreword by)

Overview

Recent work by Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Robert Bellah has brought considerable attention to bear on the ethics of virtue. Little clarity has, however, emerged from that discussion on what difference such an ethic would make in practical and political deliberations. Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue presents, for the first time, a well-developed and effective Aristotelian perspective on reasoning about war and warfare. Author G. Scott Davis first sketches the fundamentals of as Aristotelian approach to the ethics of war, arguing that the virtue is a craft, of itself fragile, that must be sustained by a community that makes the highest demands upon itself. Introduced as a criterion for evaluating alliances and international relations, the concept of moral community is also of the highest significance for interpreting those ruptures within the community, including resistance and rebellion, that arise concomitantly with the prospect and onset of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725229402
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	30 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

G. Scott Davis is the Lewis T. Booker Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.
Jacob L. Goodson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Preface xiii

1 Justice without Theory: An Artistotelian Prologue 1

2 Pacifism as a Vocation 27

3 Natural Law and the Credibility of the Just War Tradition 53

4 Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue 83

5 Friendship, Justice, and Military Service 111

6 Revolution and Regret 139

7 Epilogue: The Limits of Justice 169

References 179