Heartfelt truths: Towards an existentialist ethics of war

IF 3.2 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Cian O’Driscoll
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Abstract

Just war theory appears ever more alienated from the practice it ostensibly regulates, warfare. An increasingly abstract and esoteric discourse, it can seem very remote from the mud-and-blood actualities of warfare. This is reflective of a broader disconnect between the study of, on the one hand, the ethics of war, and, on the other, the lived experience of war. Seeking to address this problem, this article asks: How can we recentre just war thinking as a ‘lived’ theory? It proposes that we can reconnect just war theory to the lived experience of warfare by restoring its historical dialogue with existentialism. It develops this position by reading just war theory through the prism of Albert Camus's writings on political violence. It concludes that Camus's political thoughts provides a set of signposts for the development of a mode of just war theorising that places that the lived experience of warfare at the heart of our ethical thinking about war.
发自内心的真理:走向存在主义的战争伦理
正义战争理论似乎与它表面上规范的战争实践越来越疏远。这是一种越来越抽象和深奥的话语,似乎与战争的泥泞和血腥的现实非常遥远。这反映了一方面研究战争伦理,另一方面研究战争的亲身经历,两者之间存在着更广泛的脱节。为了解决这个问题,本文提出了这样一个问题:我们如何将正义战争思想重新定位为一种“活的”理论?它提出,我们可以通过恢复与存在主义的历史对话,将正义战争理论与战争的生活经验重新联系起来。它通过加缪关于政治暴力的著作的棱镜来解读正义战争理论,从而发展了这一立场。它的结论是加缪的政治思想为正义战争模式的发展提供了一系列的路标理论化,将战争的生活经验置于我们对战争的伦理思考的核心。
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Review of International Studies
Review of International Studies INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-
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期刊介绍: Review of International Studies serves the needs of scholars in international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology. The Review publishes a significant number of high quality research articles, review articles which survey new contributions to the field, a forum section to accommodate debates and replies, and occasional interviews with leading scholars.
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