This book presents ten original essays that reassess the meaning, relevance, and legacy of Michael Walzer’s classic, Just and Unjust Wars. Matt Domsalla SAASS 601/5 Just and Unjust Wars Precis . Walzer discusses the conditions that make warfare, its waging and conduct, either just or unjust. Any "moral talk" is simply epiphenomenal of underlying interests. This also shows why it is impossible for the Church of Reality to be against all wars under any circumstances and why a Realist must evaluate each situation individually in order to fulfill their religious obligations. PART I The Moral Reality of War Against the Amoralism of Realism Realist position: "war is hell" and as a consequence "all is fair" in war (even conduct that appears unfair) - there are no rules. I think a war is unjust when it is just a grab for land, like the wars against Native Americans. Wars, regardless of whether they are waged for a just or unjust cause, may also be justly or unjustly fought. 361 pp. A war is justly fought by a given country, inasmuch as that country’s leadership seeks to use all reasonable means at their disposal to avoid the infliction of civilian casualties. We know the crime because of our knowledge of the peace it interrupts--not the mere absence of fighting, but peace-with-rights, a condition of liberty and Just and Unjust Wars, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (excerpts) Michael Walzer Ch. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations by Michael Walzer PhD. 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. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in … $15.00. Morality & War. by Michael Walzer. Here are some examples of just and unjust wars. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. MICHAEL WALZER, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1971, is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars. Some of these examples are real and some are hypothetical. In Just and Unjust Wars, the American political philosopher Michael Walzer from Princeton University aims to provide a book of practical morality and to “recapture the just war for political and moral theory.”Walzer looks to account for how citizens, not lawyers, argue about the moral dilemmas found in war. People can do unjust things for just reasons, and just things for unjust reasons. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars (1977), Spheres of Justice (1983), Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (1994), and, most recently, The … He was for many years the Coeditor of Dissent and a contributing editor to The New Republic. 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