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Robert L. Holmes

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American philosopher

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Works
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Top works

  • The ethics of nonviolence
  • Introduction to Applied Ethics
  • Pacifism
  • Nonviolence in theory and practice
  • Nonviolence in theory and practice

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  • It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons.
  • Plausible moral theory must have at its center a concern for the lives and well-being of persons.
  • A necessary condition of the justifiable pursuit of any objectives in war by any means whatever.. is that one be justified in engaging in such killing and violence in the first place.
  • We will never know whether there is a realistic moral alternative to violence unless we are willing to explore the potential of nonviolent action.
  • It is not nuclear violence alone that is the threat to mankind. It is the willingness to kill our fellow human beings – the innocent as well as the noninnocent- for political ends. Unless we are willing to redirect our time, energy, and resources away from perfecting the means of mass destruction of whatever sort and into exploring nonviolent alternatives to war itself, our efforts to combat the threat of nuclear war are likely to be of no avail.
  • What I mean by saying that war is wrong is not only that it is bad but that it ought not to be waged, that governments ought not to declare and fight wars, societies ought not to provide them with the means by which to do so, and individuals ought not to sanction, support and participate in wars.

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