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Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective: China and the West book cover

1st Edition

Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective China and the West

Edited By Sumner B. Twiss, Ping-cheung Lo, Benedict S. B. Chan Copyright 2024
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics , it expands the range of the earlier work and includes attention to... Read more

Introduction

Sumner B. Twiss, Ping-cheung Lo, and Benedict S. B. Chan

Part I:  Comparative Approaches or Visions

1. Theoretical vs. Practical Considerations in Doing Comparative Military Ethics: An Engaged View

James Turner Johnson

2. Clausewitz vs. Sunzi: Comparing Western and Chinese Ways of War and their Ethics

C. Anthony Pfaff

3. East/West Just War Dialogues: Reflections on the Larger Implications

Martin L. Cook

Part II:  Chinese Thinking about War and Peace

a.  Pre-Modern:

4. Just Cause in Mengzi and Gratian: Similar Ideas, Different Receptions and Legacies

Ping-cheung Lo

5. Seven Military Classics: Martial Victory through Good Governance

Yvonne Chiu

6. Normativity of War and Peace: Thoughts from the Han Feizi

Eirik Lang Harris

7. War and Peace According to Huang-Lao Philosophy: Based on the Huangdi sijing

Ellen Y. Zhang 

8. Zeng Guofan’s Military Ethics

Jonathan K. L. Chan

b.  Modern:

9. Mao Zedong’s Ethics of War (1927-1949)?

Sumner B. Twiss

10.Chiang Kai-shek’s Military Ethics: An Analysis of His Wartime Rhetoric

Sumner B. Twiss

11. A Survey of 21 Century PLA Scholarship on the Role of Military Ethics in Warfare

Mark Metcalf

12. Moral Warfare: Weaponing Ethics to Weaken, Divide, and Smash the Enemy

Mark Metcalf

Part III:  New Comparative Horizons on Just War and Peace

13. Adjusting Authority: Legitimacy and War in Muslim and Christian Traditions

John Kelsay

14. The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights

David Little

15. Confucianism, Kant, and the Pacifist Tradition in the Constitution of Japan

Benedict S. B. Chan

Conclusion

Biography

The late Sumner B. Twiss was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion at Florida State University, USA, and author of many books.

Ping-cheung Lo is Dean and Rebecca Stephan Professor of Chinese Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, USA, and author or editor of over a dozen books, in both Chinese and English.

Benedict S. B. Chan is Director of Centre for Applied Ethics and Associate Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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