TY - BOOK AU - Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1067-0017 TI - Deterrence and the Crisis in Moral Theory T2 - An Analysis of the Moral Literature on the Nuclear Arms Debate UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1084156 N2 - The primary aim of this study is to examine the dominant views on the subject of deterrence and the use of nuclear weapons, compare them with each other, and consider objections that have or might be made against them. A second, more substantive aim is to show that nuclear weapons and war-fighting plans engender some disturbing moral dilemmas that call into question fundamental ways of thinking about morality and some of our common intuitions on the relation of intentions and actions. Deterrence and the Crisis in Moral Theory points to a profound conflict in moral theory between the ideals of character and the moral claims of politics. KW - Philosophie, Religion und Politik, Militärverwaltung LA - English ER -