With malice toward none: The moral ground for killing in war /

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Author / Creator:Livecche, Marc Edward, author.
Imprint:2015.
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015
Description:1 electronic resource (261 pages)
Language:English
Format: E-Resource Dissertations
Local Note:School code: 0330
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773070
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Other authors / contributors:University of Chicago. degree granting institution.
ISBN:9781321880465
Notes:Advisors: William Schweiker; Jean Bethke Elshtain Committee members: Martin L. Cook; Stephen C. Meredith.
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Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
English
Summary:Addressing moral injury among combat veterans, I challenge the belief that killing is wrong but in war necessary. Against the pacifistic assumptions of Niebuhrian paradox, I show that killing, while always causing an evil, is not always a wrongdoing if grounded in a conception of just war as human flourishing.