Research Catalog

Title

Justice among nations : on the moral basis of power and peace / Thomas L. Pangle and Peter J. Ahrensdorf.

Author

Pangle, Thomas L.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Ahrensdorf, Peter J., 1958-

Description

ix, 362 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Thomas Pangle and Peter Ahrensdorf provide a critical introduction to the most important conceptions of international justice, spanning 2,500 years of intellectual history from Thucydides and Plato to Morgenthau and Waltz. Their study shows how older traditions of political philosophy remain relevant to current debates in international relations, and how political thinkers through the centuries can help us deepen our understanding of today's stalemate between realism and idealism.

Subject

• International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
• International relations > Philosophy
• Political ethics
• Political science > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.

Contents

1. Classical Realism: Thucydides -- 2. Classical Idealism: Plato and Aristotle -- 3. Classical Cosmopolitanism: The Stoics and Cicero -- 4. The Christian Teaching on Just War -- 5. Modern Realism: Machiavelli and His Successors -- 6. Modern Idealism: From the Grotian Law of Nations to Kantian International Organization -- 7. Twentieth-Century Realism: Hans Morgenthau -- 8. Neorealism: Kenneth Waltz.

ISBN

0700609598 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98033168

OCLC

ocm40395493

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries