TRS 733C Topics in War and Peace
The purpose of the course is to understand the rationale and meaning of the just war tradition. In particular, we shall understand, with von Clausewitz, that the just war is an extension of politics "by other means," and not the abrogation of the political. Thus, war is a rational activity. We shall investigate this in contact with pacifism, and with ancient and current conceptions of unlimited war in the form of "holy" war.