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45 - Humane War feat. Samuel Moyn

Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

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I'm Not Judging You Guys for Doing War, Right?

He's not a pacifist. He accepts the inevitability, maybe of war and says, well, if it happens, then we ought to make it less brutal for all concerned. When he wins the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the organizers of the peace movement gets really upset because she says this prize wasn't for humanizing. It was for pacifying. And so she seeks them out and makes them announce that he's for peace too.

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