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Chapter One: The Ethics of War
The Nature of War
The Science of War: Political Realism
and Sociobiology
Moral Realism
Internal Ends and Constitutive Ethics
Transcendental Arguments of Constitutive
Rules
Chapter Two: Theories of Noncombatant immunity
Introduction
Noncombatant Immunity
Mitigation of Suffering
Cruelty
Minimizing
Pain
Reciprocity
Military Ineffectiveness
Protection of the Prize
The Greater Prize: The Monopoly of Force
Accumulation of Honor
Human Rights
In the Interests of Peace
Christian Charity
Innocence
Moral Damage
Conclusion
Chapter Three: What War Requires.
Definition of War
Permissibility
Honor or Justice?
Fighting
Sport
Proof, Cause,
and Decision
The Duel
War as Duel
Strategic Reason
Cheating
Referees
Self Defense
Rational Consistency
Discourse Ethics
Performative
Contradiction
Rules of Discourse
Fighting Ethics
The Definition
of the Duel
The Judgment
of God: Trial By Combat
The Rules of
Duels
Noncombatant Immunity
Chapter Four: What Does War Decide?
Serious Business
Honor or Truth?
To Die For: The Nature of Insult
The Fight to the Death
The Restoration
of Honor
Strategic Reason
and the Transcendental Ego
Proof and Self-Identity
On Becoming True: The Duel and Self-Certainty
Adolescent States
Duelling as a Political Act
Conclusion
Chapter Five: The Just War Tradition
Why Just War?
Justice Before War
Justification
of Police Violence
Private Violence,
Public Policy
The Power of
Subpoena
Self-Help and
Punitive War
Protection
and Crime Control
Limitations
on Legitimate Force
Principles of Just War
Just Cause
Self-Defense Yet Again: Augustine and Natural
Law
Just War Aims: The Right to Kill
Proper Authority
Crisis of Legitimacy:
The Necessary Pre-Conditions to Authority
Last Resort:
The Doctrine of Necessity
Failure of
Order: The Illegitimacy of Useless Violence
Conclusion
Chapter Six: War and Law Enforcement; or, Ritual and Punishment
Assumption of Efficacy of Force
Uncommon Assumptions
Immanental
Cosmos
Correlative
Thinking
Ars Contextualis
The Paradox of Power
Zheng and Luan
The Problem of Bloody Hands
Facing South
Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Non-violent Resistance
Pacifism and Value
The Critique of Instrumental Reason
The a priori Failure of Coercion
Absolutism
and Personal Relations
Just Cause
and Total Control
Institutionalized
Coercion
Counter-coercion,
Paternalism, the Context of War
Declining a Duel
The End of War