Never at Rest

1983-04-29
 |  Technology & Engineering
Never at Rest

Author: Richard S. Westfall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107392793

Category: Technology & Engineering

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This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

The West Indian Reports

1970
 |  Law reports, digests, etc
The West Indian Reports

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Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:$B816189

Category: Law reports, digests, etc

Page: 624

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These Reports cover cases decided in the Courts of Appeal and Supreme Courts of the various territories listed ... below [Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Associated States] and the Privy Council on appeal from the aforementioned Courts.

The Ethics of War and the Force of Law

2020-11-25
 |  Philosophy
The Ethics of War and the Force of Law

Author: Uwe Steinhoff

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ISBN: 1003110428

Category: Philosophy

Page: 321

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This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law. Traditionalist, Walzerian, and "revisionist" approaches have dominated contemporary debates about the classical jus ad bellum and jus in bello requirements in just war theory. In this book, Uwe Steinhoff corrects widely spread misinterpretations of these competing views and spells out the implications for the ethics of war. His approach is unique in that it complements the usual analysis in terms of self-defense with an emphasis on the importance of other justifications that are often lumped together under the heading of "lesser evil." It also draws on criminal law and legal scholarship, which has been largely ignored by just war theorists. Ultimately, Steinhoff rejects arguments in favor of "moral fundamentalism"-- the view that the laws and customs of war must simply follow an immutable morality. In contrast, he argues that widely accepted laws and conventions of war are partly constitutive of the moral rules that apply in a conflict. The Ethics of War and the Force of Law will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in just war theory, applied ethics, political philosophy, political theory, philosophy of law, and criminal and military law.