Synopses & Reviews
Moseley considers war from all angles: Christian, Marxist, Platonic, behavioralist, economic, psychological, and biological; he concludes that market-based societies tend to foster cooperation more than combat.?
Table of Contents
Why a philosophy of war? -- Defining war -- Types of war -- Metaphysics and the non-inevitability of war -- Human nature and war -- War and human biology -- Between biology and culture -- Culture and war -- Unintentional war -- Between culture and reason -- Rationalism and war -- Idealism, metaphysical beliefs and war -- Epistemological beliefs and war -- Conclusions on war and peace.