On Ethics Of The War

The word "war" has aroused different emotions from the frenziedenthusiasm to the barbaric evil and stifled fear in the history. Warserected empires, expanded civilizations and caused terrible sufferingand destruction as well. Through the complex phenomena in the war,Clausewitz expressed the nature of war-"a continuation of politics".War is special political activities- bloodshed politics.We study themorality is a special kind of morality that care more of "banning"than of "promoting" in wars, which the both parties' lowest requestand seeking "good" in "evil". Wars are brutal but some "good"in wars makes wars be away from the brutality. A longer-term peace iswhat each person in the world. Thus, the study of ethics and moralityin wars is more meaning than ever before, especially after theemergence and application of high-tech weapons as well asglobalization.Chapter 1 primarily described the ethical nature of war. First, itidentifies 3 viewpoints on the relations between war and morality-ethics has nothing to do with wars, all wars are immoral and somewars have ethical reason. Then, the thesis points out that the ethicalnature of war is a way of dealing with political relations and a meansto achieve political value. It also relates that wars have ethical naturein politics-"special interests among people", which is the premise ofthe argument of the whole thesis. At the end, the thesis put the moralposition on just war, which means that just wars are morally justified.Following that, the thesis relates macroscopically the four moralprinciples of war--the principle of humanity, of peace, of moderation,and of environmental protection, each of which reflects the moraldemands that people have on a war. At last, it discusses theconstraining role of ethics on a war before, during and after it. Before war, the cause of war should be minimized, During war, civilian andsoldier, civilian objects and military objects should be distinguished.After war, all the orders should be restored and people go back to theirnormal life as soon as possible.It concludes by pointing out thatmankind can make wars more ethical and more civilized by ourwisdom, though we can not eliminate war.