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Self-Defense, Pacifism, and the Possibility of Killing* Cheyney C. Ryan A decade and a half ago, on my eighteenth birthday, I registered as a conscientious objector with the Selective Service System. The sources of my pacifism were more philosophical than religious: it seemed to me then that no adequatejustification could be given for the ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Pacifism as War Abolitionism provides an account of the war system that draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy. The core of its critique of that system is that war begets war, and hence war will not be ended—or even constrained—by finding more principled ways to fight war, as many imagine.
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Mar 12, 2024 · Pacifism as War Abolitionism draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy to provide an account of the ‘war system’. At the core of the book is the point that war begets war, and hence war will not be ended—or even constrained—by finding more principled ways to fight war.
“In an age of perpetual conflict, Cheyney Ryan delivers a courageous and deeply reasoned account of how war can be abolished. Pacifism as War Abolitionism , in contrast to the Just War tradition, focuses on non-violent means for ending the war system that enables endless war.
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Nov 14, 2009 · Medieval natural law theory, for example, did not regard war as a conflict between moral equals. Its view of just war was more of a crime-and-punishment model: soldiers fighting an unjust war were akin to criminals, who had no more right to commit violent acts than an ordinary criminal.
Jul 6, 2006 · As Cheyney Ryan has argued, pacifism is a “skeptical position.” As Ryan puts this: “its general claim is that the proponent of killing cannot produce a single compelling argument for why killing another person is permissible” (Ryan 1983, 509).
Cheyney Ryan The One Who Burns Herself for Peace, Hypatia 9, no.2 2 (Mar 2020): 21–39.
