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Chinese Just War Ethics : Origin, Development, and Dissent
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Chinese Just War Ethics : Origin, Development, and Dissent.
ISBN
1315740702
1317580974
9781315740706
9781317580973
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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015.
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1 online resource (321 pages)
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This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development. Chinese attitudes toward war are rich and nuanced, ranging across amoral realism, defensive just war, humanitarian intervention, and mournful skepticism. Covering the five major intellectual traditions in the ""golden age"" of Chinese civilization: Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Legalist, and Military Strategy schools, the book's chapters immerse readers in the proper historical contexts, examine the moral concerns in the classical texts on their own terms, reframe those concer.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Lo, Ping-Cheung. Chinese Just War Ethics : Origin, Development, and Dissent. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015
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Language
English
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October 04, 2024
Series
War, Conflict and Ethics
Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgments; Notes on citation styles and Romanization; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 Varieties of statecraft and warfare ethics in early China: an overview; PART I The military strategy tradition; 2 The Art of War corpus and Chinese just war ethics past and present; 3 Warfare ethics in Sunzi's Art of War? Historical controversies and contemporary perspectives; PART II The Confucian tradition; 4 The classical Confucian position on the legitimate use of military force.
5 Classical Confucianism, punitive expeditions, and humanitarian intervention6 Xunzi's moral analysis of war and some of its contemporary implications; 7 Wang Yang-ming's ethics of war; PART III The Daoist, Mohist, and Legalist traditions; 8 "Weapons are nothing but ominous instruments": the Daodejing's view on war and peace; 9 Zheng (征) as zheng (正)? A Daoist challenge to punitive expeditions; 10 Mohist arguments on war; 11 Legalism and offensive realism in the Chinese court debate on defending national security 81 BCE; General index; Citation index.
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