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Ethics of war

C. A. J. Coady

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Abstract These moving words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflecting on his participation in World War I are engraved in stone on the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. They were spoken in 1936 and encapsulate what is morally problematic, to say the least, about the waging of war. Yet it was the same Roosevelt who strove so mightily (and often furtively) not long afterwards to bring a reluctant United States into the war against Germany, only gaining his object when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. The tension between his words and his later endeavors reveals the logical space an ethics of war attempts to fill.

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Abstract These moving words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflecting on his participation in World War I are engraved in stone on the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. They were spoken in 1936 and encapsulate what is morally problematic, to say the least, about the waging of war. Yet it was the same Roosevelt who strove so mightily (and often furtively) not long afterwards to bring a reluctant United States into the war against Germany, only gaining his object when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. The tension between his words and his later endeavors reveals the logical space an ethics of war attempts to fill.

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Abstract These moving words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflecting on his participation in World War I are engraved in stone on the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. They were spoken in 1936 and encapsulate what is morally problematic, to say the least, about the waging of war. Yet it was the same Roosevelt who strove so mightily (and often furtively) not long afterwards to bring a reluctant United States into the war against Germany, only gaining his object when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. The tension between his words and his later endeavors reveals the logical space an ethics of war attempts to fill.

Key concepts: Pearl, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Object (grammar), Law, History, Art history, Political science

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