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Beyond Just War\nby D. Chan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: D. Chan\nTitle: Beyond Just War\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political science and theory\nPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan\nPublication year: 2012\nEdition: 1st ed. 2012\nISBN-13: 9781349999866\nISBN-10: 1349999865\nRRP: \u00A344.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nUnlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the ''just war'' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: ''If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?''\n\nUnlike mos.