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Sep 14, 2020 · Walzer’s examples of these particularist goods include “membership, power, honor, ritual eminence, divine grace, kinship and love, knowledge, wealth, 1 physical security, work and leisure, rewards and punishments, and a host of goods more narrowly and materially conceived—food, shelter, clothing, transportation, medical care, commodities ...
- Andrew C Wicks, Patricia H Werhane, Heather Elms, John Nolan
- 2021
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 just war.
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Jan 5, 2023 · Michael Walzer is among the most prolific of contemporary political and social theorists, and his work is among the most wide-ranging. He has made contributions to fields such as the ethics of war (Walzer 2004, 2015a), distributive justice (Walzer 1983), social criticism and philosophical method (Walzer 1987, 1988, 1994), multiculturalism (Walzer 1992, 1997), religion in politics (Walzer 2012 ...
- reinerj@dickinson.edu
Dec 16, 2023 · Walzer’s response in defense of his and the “orthodox” position has both methodological and theoretical elements. Methodologically, Walzer observes that most of the work coming out of the revisionist camp is ensconced in hypotheticals and thought experiments, thereby divorced from the concrete realities of warfare and warring.
- Mark A. Wilson
- mark.wilson@villanova.edu
Beitz, another critic of Walzer’s alleged statism, argues that, ‘a main theme of Walzer’s book—that it is a crime to violate a state’s territorial integrity and political independence—invokes a principle of sovereignty’. 32 To the contrary, Walzer appeals to the intrinsic value of community: a good that may be defended by, but is ...
Walzer’s latest contribution to political theory is The Paradox of Liberation , a book that carries forward the commitment to pluralism introduced in earlier writings. Its purpose is to defend a series of claims about national liberation movements in Algeria, India, and Israel, three states which have succumbed in the past decade to uprisings ...
Mar 25, 2011 · The central value in Walzer's conception is collective self-determination, so I comment about its meaning and importance. Finally, I consider whether and how concerns about the moral standing of states bear on the kinds of cases of humanitarian intervention that the world community has actually faced since the book and article were written ...
