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Andrew Fiala's Against Religion, Wars, and States: The Case for Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism argues that we need to overcome the idea of the nation-state and look toward global justice, that we need to develop a more critical stance toward religion while embracing enlightened humanism and natural science, and that we need to look beyond violent solutions to social problems in order to build world peace.
Sommario
Preface
Chapter 1: Against Religions, Wars, and States
Argument and Method
Civilization, Authority, and Bullshit
Costs and Benefits: A Preliminary Account
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Five Principles of Criticism
Methodological Considerations
The Individual Liberty Principle
The Caring Community Principle
The Skeptical Principle
The Peace Principle
The Cosmopolitan Principles
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Agnosticism and Atheism
Skepticism about Religion
Individual Liberty and Religion
Genuine Community, Universal Justice, and Peace
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Religion, The Military, and the Secular Challenge
The Unholy Conjunction of Religion, Politics, and Violence
Toward a More Secular Union
Thank God for the First Amendment
Science and Religion in the Public Sphere
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Religion, The Family, and Criminal Justice
Religion and Demography
Women and Children
Violence Against Children
Free Will and Criminal Justice
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Skeptical Pacifism
The Peace Principle
Agnosticism and The Just War Tradition
Military Service, The Individual, and The Community
Atheism, Cosmopolitanism, and Pacifism
Conclusion
Chapter 7: The War-System, Profit, and the Failure of Just War Ethics
Standing Armies and Spending Priorities
The War Racket and Just War Theory
A Case Study from the Eastern Mediterranean
Defense Contractor Profits
Arms Dealers, Power, Politics, and the Revolving Door
Global Profits and Unjust Arms Deals
Conclusion
Chapter 8: One-Sided Wars: Torture, Nukes, Religion, and Collective Narcissism
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Religion and the War on Terror
Nuclear Madness
Humanitarian Interventions
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Social Contract Anarchism and Cosmopolitan Democracy
Against the Organic Platonic State
Skepticism and the Liberal Social Contract Theory
Individual Liberty, Nation-States, and Genuine Communities
The Cosmopolitan Principle and The Peace Principle
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Civil Religion, Voting, and Oligarchy
Patriotism, Civil Religion, and Military Service
Voting, Consent, and Political Power
The Money Problem
A Constitutional Crisis?
Oligarchy
Getting Away with Murder
Conclusion
Chapter 11: State Violence, the Prison-Industrial Complex, and Immigration
Civilization and State Violence
Restorative Justice and Police Brutality
Drug War Profits
Deterring Crime
Convicting the Innocent
Defining Crime and Defending Punishment
The Prison-Industrial Complex
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Bibliography
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Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent books are: Nonviolence: A Quick Immersion (2020) and The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence (editor, 2018).
Peter Admirand is lecturer in theology and director of the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue at Dublin City University. His most recent books are Humbling Faith: Brokenness, Doubt, Dialogue--What Unites Atheists, Theists, and Nontheists (2019) and a forthcoming book exploring ethics in the comics Y: The Last Man and Saga.
