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Should War Be Eliminated? : Philosophical and Theological Investigations Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology ; 1984
author
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Hauerwas, Stanley.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874625394
print isbn13
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9780874625394
ebook isbn13
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9780585141527
language
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English
subject
War--Religious aspects--Christianity, War--Moral and ethical aspects, Just war doctrine.
publication date
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1984
lcc
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BT736.2.H34 1984eb
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261.8/73
subject
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War--Religious aspects--Christianity, War--Moral and ethical aspects, Just war doctrine.
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The 1984 Pre Marquette Theology Lecture
Should War Be Eliminated?
Philosophical and Theological Investigations
by Stanley Hauerwas Professor of Theology Notre Dame University
Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 84-060236
Copyright 1984 Marquette University
ISBN 0-87462-539-4
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Preface
The 1984 Pre Marquette Lecture is the fifteenth in a series inaugurated to celebrate the Tercentenary of the missions and explorations of Pre Marquette, S.J. (16371675). The Marquette University Theology Department, founded in 1952, launched these annual lectures by distin-guished theologians under the title of the Pre Marquette Lectures in 1969.
The 1984 lecture was delivered at Marquette University April 8, 1984 by Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, professor of theology at Notre Dame University.
Dr. Hauerwas received his Ph.D. in religious ethics from Yale University in 1968. He has published Vision and Virtue: Essays in Theological Ethics (1974), Character and Christian Life: A Study In Theological Ethics (1975), Truthfulness and Tragedy: Further Investigations, (1977), and a Community of Character: Towards a Constructive Social Ethics (1981).
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His lectures and articlese.g. "The Church in a Divided World: the Interpretive Power of the Christian Story", "The Moral Authority of Scripture: the Politics and Ethics and Remembering"concern Christian ethics in the modern world. He insists on the radicality of the gospel message and its conflict with certain moral theories and practices.
Dr. Hauerwas has recently published The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics in 1984, and is preparing a book on war and other related topics called Living Among the Nations: Reflections on War, Democracy and Survival.
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Should War Be Eliminated? Philosophical and Theological Investigations
Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go out to the field." And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?'' And so it began.
1. On Getting the Problems Right
Large numbers of people are now convinced that we should eliminate all nuclear weapons. In their recent pastoral letter the Roman Catholic Bishops of America seem virtually to have joined these ranks. Still more people, while they do not call for the complete destruction of nuclear weapons suggest that we should drastically reduce the kind and number of our nuclear stockpile. This latter group includes such highly respected persons
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as George Kennan and Robert MacNamara, the sort who cannot be accused of political navet. As yet, however, these many voices have precipitated no change in public policy and they seem unlikely to do so in the near future. Indeed we are told that the peace movement threatens the peace, as peace can only be guaranteed through strength which means more, not less, nuclear missiles. And so the stockpiles continue to grow.
Why do we seem caught in this dilemma? Why, when all admit that nuclear weapons threaten our very existence as nations if not as a species, do we seem so unable to free ourselves from their power? Some suppose the people want peace, but our leaders, inspired by some nefarious motive, do not. Such explanations are far too simple; the problem is much more recalcitrant than a change in leadership can solve. We all, leaders and followers alike, seem caught in a web of powers that is one of our own making yet not under our control. We say we want peace, but we seem destined for war.
Why is this the case? Why do all our attempts to think morally about war seem often so futile in the face of war's irresistible inevitability? In spite of its horror and
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destructiveness, its insanity and irrationality, might it be that we have overlooked the fact that war has a moral purpose? Could that be the reason why no matter how compelling the logic against nuclear weapons, we still seem defeated by those who say, "All that may be quite right, but...?" What are the moral presuppositions that make that "but" seem so powerful?
In order to try to understand these kinds of questions I am going to propose a thought experiment which may help us reconsider our assumptions about war and its place in our lives. The experiment is to provide the best negative answer I am able to the question: "Should war be eliminated?" We tend to think such a question absurd. After all, it is not a question of "should" at all, but ''can." We all know we should eliminate war; the problem is we cannot. Asking if we should eliminate war is like asking if we should eliminate sin. Of course we should, but the problem is that we cannot. Therefore to ask such a question is to start us off in the wrong direction.
While admitting that there may be aspects of the question bordering on the absurd, I hope to show that by pressing it seriously we may be able to illumine why war is such an
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