The Moral Dilemma Of Nuclear Weapons

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Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Moral Dilemma of Nuclear Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Moral Dilemma of Nuclear Weapons: Essays From Worldview, a Journal of Religion and International Affairs This volume is the first collection of essays from worldview, the monthly journal of opinion that is now entering its sixth year of publication by the Council on Religion and International Affairs. As these essays are concerned to develop various approaches to a common subject, namely, the moral implications of modern nuclear warfare, they reflect the larger purpose of worldview, which is to determine what ethical guides, derived from the body of religious insight that is frequently referred to as "the Judeo-Christian tradition," may be relevant to the problems of politics on an international level. The writers of these essays make no attempt to "solve" the problem of nuclear weapons. They do attempt to engage in a consideration of the role of the stateman as he faces this most crucial and agonizing question, and to evaluate alternatives of thought and action which are, in the words of one of the participants, "morally responsible and politically wise." This series was inaugurated in the December, 1958 issue of worldview and was concluded in the October, 1960 issue. Political scientists, theologians, military analysts and journalists - "realists" and "pacifists" - joined and extended the discussion. As no attempt was made to enforce the more formal rules of debate, some of the participants wrote in direct challenge or response to previous contributions, while others preferred to state an independent viewpoint. The remarks in the section entitled "Postscripts" were contributed especially for publication in this pamphlet and appear here for the first time. A paper delivered at Princeton by George F. Kennan (reprinted in this pamphlet) provided a practicing statesman's views on the relationship of policy and conscience and, as such, was swept into the course of the discussion in worldviews pages. In a sense, the discussion remains open. It could not be otherwise. By publishing these arguments in the form they took, the directors of the Council on Religion and International Affairs hope to indicate how a beginning can be made to a joint examination of this, the great moral issue of our age. For there has been a strange silence on the subject of morality and modem armaments in the United States. There has been a dangerous divorce between the moralists and the makers of the policy. The debate over morality and nuclear weapons has raged in many European countries - notably in Great Britain - but here there exists a widespread apathy which seems to result more from ignorance than from cynicism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.