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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | [Philosophy] - Essay: The Ethics Of War [Shard] - Sosaria [Type] - Philosophy [Book] - Red - 20 pages [Title] - Essay: The Ethics Of War [Author] - Gernontius Xantar [Page 1] "He has made his weapons his gods. When his weapons win, he is defeated himself". War, always an evil, is sometimes the lesser of two evils. Even then it [Page 2] needs additional justification from the degree of evil it opposes. This question prompts the inescapable question about the conduct of war: what should be its limits? Should ethics tie ones [Page 3] hands when faced with an implacable enemy? The great general Montegorn once said: "There is no middle course in war". This hard truth forces one to recognize another; that every war, however [Page 4] justified, reduces the stock of human good and diminishes civilization, sometimes destroying in seconds what centuries built........ |
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