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The points at which Walzer’s work seems to stride towards an embedded cosmopolitan position, but then either stumbles or changes course, offer important insights into the requisite features, and potential pitfalls, of an ethical cosmopolitanism that would take seriously anti-impartialist claims.
Feb 6, 2019 · Almost immediately upon its 1977 publication, Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars became the most influential modern work on the laws of war. Though written by an avowed anti-war activist who opposed Vietnam, the work won popularity and praise because it rejected both amoral realism and pacifism and sought to resuscitate the tradition of ...
Dec 16, 2023 · Just and Unjust Wars: Method. A signature feature of JUW is its casuistical approach. In marked contrast to the preoccupation with fanciful “trolley cases” that characterizes much of the recent literature in moral philosophy, and the ethics of war specifically, Walzer’s is a concrete casuistry.
- Mark A. Wilson
- mark.wilson@villanova.edu
Jun 6, 2017 · In light of its communitarianism, the key question about Walzer’s political theory is whether pluralistic egalitarianism defies essential principles of liberal egalitarianism.
- Michael Kocsis
- msk3@queensu.ca
Jan 5, 2023 · One of the most distinctive features of Walzer’s thought is simply his willingness to advance contentious arguments and stake a position in a wide range of fields. He has argued that this is what makes political and social philosophy distinctive as fields in the contemporary academy: that they have a license to intervene in public debates in ...
- reinerj@dickinson.edu
Dec 10, 2015 · Walzer’s influence has operated on different levels, of which we can distinguish at least three. There is a micro level, with numerous authors picking up fruitful ideas, lines of inquiries or suggestions, found in Walzer’s work, and appropriating them or using them to pursue further arguments.
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The first section focuses on Walzer's moral language; its structure, inconsistencies, and theological underpinnings. The second section addresses how Walzer employs this language to justify the sacrifice of combatants in defence of non-combatants.
