Chinese Just War Ethics

Taylor & Francis

Chinese Just War EthicsOrigin, Development, and Dissent\nAuthor(s): Ping-Cheung Lo, Sumner B Twiss\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138824355, 978-1138824355\nSynopsis\nThis book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development. \n\nChinese attitudes toward war are rich and nuanced, ranging across amoral realism, defensive just war, humanitarian intervention, and mournful skepticism. Covering the five major intellectual traditions in the \""golden age\"" of Chinese civilization: Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Legalist, and Military Strategy schools, the books chapters immerse readers in the proper historical contexts, examine the moral concerns in the classical texts on their own terms, reframe those concerns in contemporary ethical idioms, and forge a critical dialogue between the past and the present. The volume develops fresh moral interpretations of clas.