Name: The War That Must Not Occur (en Inglés)
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Author: Dupuy, Jean-Pierre ; Debevoise, Malcolm
ISBN: 9781503635159

portada The War That Must Not Occur (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Traducido por

Malcolm Debevoise

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.8 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781503635159

N° edición

Categorías

Negociación y control de armamento
Filosofía ética y moral
Filosofía social y política

The War That Must Not Occur (en Inglés)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Autor) · Malcolm Debevoise (Traducido por) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Dura

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The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons--indeed, that no atomic weapon of limited power has yet been used under battlefield conditions--seems nothing short of a miracle. Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, Jean-Pierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur. Dupuy shows that the contradictions and paradoxes riddling discussions of deterrence arise from the tension between two opposite conceptions of time: one in which the future depends on decisions and strategy, and another in which every occurring event is one that could not have failed to occur. Considering the immense destructive power of nuclear warheads and the almost unimaginable ruin they are bound to cause, Dupuy reaches a provocative conclusion: whether they bring about good or evil does not depend on the present or future intentions of those who are in a position to use them. The mere possession of nuclear weapons is a moral abomination.