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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- From Introduction to Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)
- From “Anarchism: What It Really Stands for” (1911)
- From “Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement” (1925)
- From Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? (1933)
- From “Hoodoo” (1935)
- From “Voodoo” (1938)
- From Letter to a Priest (1951)
- From Faith and Freedom: A Study of Western Society (1954)
- From Mr Truman’s Degree (1956)
- Jane Addams
- Emma Goldman
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Pearl S. Buck
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Simone Weil
- Barbara Ward
- G. Elizabeth Anscombe
- Index
G. Elizabeth Anscombe
from 13 - Religion and Ethics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- From Introduction to Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)
- From “Anarchism: What It Really Stands for” (1911)
- From “Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement” (1925)
- From Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? (1933)
- From “Hoodoo” (1935)
- From “Voodoo” (1938)
- From Letter to a Priest (1951)
- From Faith and Freedom: A Study of Western Society (1954)
- From Mr Truman’s Degree (1956)
- Jane Addams
- Emma Goldman
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Pearl S. Buck
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Simone Weil
- Barbara Ward
- G. Elizabeth Anscombe
- Index
Summary
Choosing to kill the innocent as a means to your ends is always murder. Naturally, killing the innocent as an end in itself is murder too: but that is no more than a possible future development for in our part of the globe it is a practice that has so far been confined to the Nazis. I intend my formulation to be taken strictly: each term in it is necessary. For killing the innocent, even if you know as a matter of statistical certainty that the things you do involve it, is not necessarily murder. I mean that if you attack a lot of military targets, such as munitions factories and naval dockyards, as carefully as you can, you will be certain to kill a number of innocent people; but that is not murder. On the other hand, unscrupulousness in considering the possibilities turns it into murder.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 738 - 742Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022