The ethics of nonviolence
Subtitle: essays
By: by Robert L. Holmes ; edited by Predrag Cicovacki
Contributors: Cicovacki, Predrag
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781623566425; 9781623568054; 9781623565800; 9781623569624
Subjects: Nonviolence; Moral and ethical aspects
Work titles: Essays
Description: Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form. The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic works and more obscure pieces, as well as several important essays that have never been published. Holmes started his career by following Dewey and James, and then turned toward metaethics. The Vietnam War finally led him toward moral problems related to war and violence. For the last forty years he has been a great proponent of nonviolence and pacifism in the style of Tolstoy and Gandhi. If ethics is meant to be more than a purely academic exercise, the theoretical ethics of philosophy must be shown to be relevant to applied morality; the ongoing process of making moral judgments must add value to the world we live in. For Robert Holmes, no aspect of reality is more in need of ethical thinking and reform than the culture of war and violence that cannot be ignored. There are morally viable alternatives to this violence, Holmes argues, and he scrutinizes the sources and implications of such positions. Holmes shows that nonviolence and pacifism can lead us toward a more peaceful and humanely dignified world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Dewey's moral philosophy in contemporary perspective; title: Consequentialism and its consequences; title: The limited relevance of analytical ethics to the problems of bioethics; title: The concept of corporate responsibility; title: University neutrality and ROTC; title: The philosophy of political realism in international affairs; title: The challenge of nonviolence in the new world order; title: St. Augustine and the just war theory; title: War, power, and nonviolence; title: Violence and nonviolence; title: The morality of nonviolence; title: Terrorism, violence, and nonviolence; title: Understanding evil from the perspective of nonviolence; title: Jallianwala Bagh and the Boston tea party:; title: Nonviolent roots of the Indian and American anti-imperialism; title: Toward a nonviolent American revolution; title: My (non- )teaching philosophy.