Cheyney Ryan | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Harvard College (BA), Boston University (MA, PhD) |
Thesis | Value, Capital, and Crisis: A Study in Philosophy and Economics (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | Alasdair MacIntyre, Marx Wartofsky, Thomas A. McCarthy, Howard Zinn |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy |
Institutions | University of Oregon,Oxford University |
Main interests | ethics |
Website | www |
Cheyney C. Ryan is an American philosopher and emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Oregon. He is also a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics,Law,and Armed Conflict,known for his works on nonviolence,pacifism,and the critique of just war theory. Ryan is a winner of the Joseph J. Blau Prize from the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy. [1]
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war,militarism or violence. The word pacifism was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ahimsa,which is a core philosophy in Indian religions such as Hinduism,Buddhism,and Jainism. While modern connotations are recent,having been explicated since the 19th century,ancient references abound.
The just war theory is a doctrine,also referred to as a tradition,of military ethics that aims to ensure that a war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria,all of which must be met for a war to be considered just. It has been studied by military leaders,theologians,ethicists and policymakers. The criteria are split into two groups:jus ad bellum and jus in bello. The first group of criteria concerns the morality of going to war,and the second group of criteria concerns the moral conduct within war. There have been calls for the inclusion of a third category of just war theory dealing with the morality of post-war settlement and reconstruction. The just war theory postulates the belief that war,while it is terrible but less so with the right conduct,is not always the worst option. The just war theory presents a justifiable means of war with justice being an objective of armed conflict. Important responsibilities,undesirable outcomes,or preventable atrocities may justify war.
Loyalty is a devotion to a country,philosophy,group,or person. Philosophers disagree on what can be an object of loyalty,as some argue that loyalty is strictly interpersonal and only another human being can be the object of loyalty. The definition of loyalty in law and political science is the fidelity of an individual to a nation,either one's nation of birth,or one's declared home nation by oath (naturalization).
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Pacificism is the general term for ethical opposition to violence or war unless force is deemed necessary. Together with pacifism,it is born from the Western tradition or attitude that calls for peace. The former involves the unconditional refusal to support violence or absolute pacifism,but pacificism views the prevention of violence as its duty but recognizes the controlled use of force to achieve such objective. According to Martin Ceadel,pacifism and pacificism are driven by a certain political position or ideology such as liberalism,socialism or feminism.
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Hilde Lindemann is an American philosophy professor and bioethicist and emerita professor at Michigan State University. Lindemann earned her B.A. in German language and literature in 1969 at the University of Georgia. Lindemann also earned her M.A. in theatre history and dramatic literature,in 1972,at the University of Georgia. Lindemann began her career as a copyeditor for several universities. She then moved on to a job at the Hastings Center in New York City,an institute focused on bioethics research,and co-authored book The Patient in the Family, with James Lindemann Nelson,before deciding to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy at Fordham University in 2000. Previously,she taught at the University of Tennessee and Vassar College and served as the associate editor of the Hastings Center Report (1990–95). Lindemann usually teaches courses on feminist philosophy,identity and agency,naturalized bioethics,and narrative approaches to bioethics at Michigan State University.
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