TY - BOOK AU - Fiala,Andrew Gordon TI - Public war, private conscience: the ethics of political violence SN - 9781441182586 U1 - 172.42 21E PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum N1 - Index; Notes bibliogr; The sublime grind of Ares -- The war of public and private -- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream -- Democratic control and professional ethics -- The military establishment -- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad -- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war -- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism -- Sliding scales and the mischief of war -- Waterboarding, torture, and violence -- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition -- Public myths and private protest ER -