Jim and Pedro
Geoffrey Best, 17 April 1980
The Ethics of War
by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill.
Duckworth, 332 pp., £18, October 1979,0 7156 1354 5 Show More
by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill.
Duckworth, 332 pp., £18, October 1979,
“... have argued in justification of ‘war studies’ that they can be peace studies too. Paskins and Dockrill place a devastating shot in our locker. The task they set themselves is that of the benevolent gadfly: a mixture of Socrates, Kant and Liddell Hart. They announce their book as ‘an experiment in practical philosophy’, inviting common and uncommon ... ”