Война, или В плену насилия

СПб. : European University at Saint-Petersburg, 2019.

Kumankov A.

The social and political meaning of war has changed over the history of Western civilization. Each era from Antiquity to the present has its own way of understanding war and providing it with moral assessment. At the same time, the duality of the attitude to war was steadily reproduced. People were constantly trying to tame violence, and cursing war, they were time after time looking for the excuse to keep fighting. We will try to understand why that happened answering a number of questions: What is war? How has reflection on the meaning of war changed over time? What benefit did belligerents get out of war? Can war be just and unjust? What was treated as permissible and intolerable on the battlefield? How the attitude towards war has changed since the beginning of the 21 century?

Keywords: война, just war theory, war, насилие, теория справедливой войны, violence, Clausewitz, Hugo Grotius, Гуго Гроций, Карл фон Клаузевиц, Saint Augustine, Августин Аврелий