Online-Ressource
Verfasst von:	Nolan, Cathal J. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Mercy
Titelzusatz:	humanity in warfare
Verf.angabe:	Cathal J. Nolan
Verlagsort:	New York, NY
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	1 online resource (viii, 315 pages)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Oxford scholarship online
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-19-764668-7
Abstract:	War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. It is an arena where individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy pitted against its reflection in an elemental struggle for survival. A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity. Pulling the trigger is usually both the expedient thing and required by war's grim and remorseless calculus. Yet somehow the trigger is not always pulled. Humanity is rediscovered and honoured in a flash of recognition. This book gathers and explores acts of singular mercy, giving them form and substance - across wars, causes, and opposing uniforms.
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780190077280.001.0001
URL:	Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190077280.001.0001
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190077280.001.0001
Schlagwörter:	(s)Krieg    / (s)Barmherzigkeit    / (z)Geschichte
	(s)Kriegführung    / (s)Krieg    / (s)Geschichte    / (s)Gewalttätigkeit    / (s)Kriegsopfer    / (s)Ethik
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Nolan, Cathal J., 1956 - : Mercy. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2023. - viii, 315 Seiten
Sach-SW:	Society
	Ethics & moral philosophy
K10plus-PPN:	182706806X
	Universitätsbibliothek
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