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207 pp., viii. NAP. Following the Preface, Contents divided into 8 Essays and multiple "Related Documents": [1] Peter A. French, "The Responsibility of Monsters and Their Makers"; [2] Haskell Fain, "Some Moral Infirmities of Justice"; [3] Kurt Baier, "Guilt and Responsibility"; [4] R.S. Downie, "Responsibility and Social Roles"; [5] David Cooper, "Responsibility and the ' System ' "; [6] Virginia Held, "Moral Responsibility and Collective Action"; [7] H.D. Lewis, The Non-Moral Notion of Collective Responsibility"; [8] Stanley Bates, " My Lai and Vietnam: The Issues of Responsibility"; RELATED DOCUMENTS: [1] The Ridenhour Letter; [2] The Charge Against Sgt. Calley; [3] The Hague Convention on Land Warfare, 1907; [4] Minutes from the International Conference on Military Trials; [5] Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; [6] Nuremberg Trials: the Jodl Defence; [7] Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; [8] The United States Military Field Manual; BIBLIOGRAPHY, pp. 205-207. // From the Series and Volume Editor's Preface: "First and foremost this a philosophy series, designed to help us in some comprehensible way with the sometimes overwhelming, always serious, issues of the day. The major example used in this voume , the massacre at My Lai, is to be thought of as the occasion for raising and investigating the moral and legal questions of individual and collective responsibility. We are not trying to pass judgment on Lt. Calley, his company, or his superiors; that has been done and surely will be reviewed. We are not pronouncing a verdict on the American system; that has also been done, and it will continue to be done in the years of social retrospection which hopefully will follow the Indochina war. Yet, neither are we putting off judgment. Instead, the philosophers in this volume are examining the grounds for holding various notions of responsibility and the application of such notions of atrocity that was My Lai. In brief, the aim of this book and of the series as a whole, is to produce exciting new philosophical contributions to the major ethical controversies of the day." (p. vii) [Now think of contemporary Moral Issues of sinking "drug" boats and killing their crews in international waters, kidnapping a sovereign nation's President and extraditing him for trial in another country, commandeering oil tankers in international waters, invading another sovereign country to kill drug lords and their followers, using military might on domestic soil to achieve "political" goals of the country's President, etc. // Glossy orange wrappers with Title lettering in thick white letters on top third front cover, just above Editor name lettering in small black letters at upper left middle front cover; Illustration on lower half front cover of two soldiers in helmets, profiled leftward, with an unhelmeted man looking toward reader, partially obscured by a helmet, with a human hand pointing off to the right, suggesting that "responsibility lies elsewhere". Appears CRISP, UNREAD, only peccadillo is previous owner name and purchase date discreetly at top left, inside front cover: Tight binding; sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Virtually, As New.// A Classic Philosophy anthology, with distinguished Contributors, as relevant and useful today, as at the time of its first publication, despite its inception during the Vietnam war. Arguably, Gift-Giving Condition or you may need new friends.
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