Just and Unjust Wars
A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

This book, considered a must read in the field of just war theory, left me unimpressed. Everything is based on a system of morality that is never really explained save for an unexplained theory of rights that people supposedly have under various circumstances. Where do these rights come from? The sh......more

Got this after watching Oppenheimer, with its numerous moral dilemmas in the latter part of the movie, and after re-reading Walzer’s essay about the Allied strategic bombing campaign in WWII (World War II: Why Was This War Different?). But only started reading after Sinclair McKay’s The Fire and the......more

Read for the international philosophy Olympiad Admittedly, I didn't read the entire book. Still, I read until page 250-ish and a few other chapters. I'm not going to continue more because I'm done with philosophy. I am kind of the 39th best high school philosopher in the world so I think I've done en......more

this is from meeghan's "read-for-school-political-science-degree" era, specifically the era in which she took most all of the classes that dr. michael allen taught because, in all sincerity, she loved the topics he taught and researched on. she also sometimes talks about herself in the third person,......more