Douglas P. Lackey

Douglas P. Lackey is a US philosopher and playwright.^[1]

As a graduate student, he studied under J. N. Findlay at Yale University. His post-graduate work on the ethics of nuclear warfare was influenced by his attention to earlier works by Bertram Russell.^[1] His drama Kaddish in East Jerusalem was produced in 2003.^[1] The play was later expanded and revised as The Gandhi Nonviolent Soccer Club.^[1]

Lackey divides pacifism into four categories: a universal, Christian view in which all killing is wrong; a universal, Gandhi-based system in which all violence is wrong; private pacificism, following Saint Augustine in seeing personal violence as universally wrong but political violence as sometimes acceptable; and anti-war pacifism, in which personal violence is at times justifiable, but war is never so.^[2]

Works

• Moral principles and nuclear weapons, 1984. ISBN
• The ethics of war and peace, 1989. ISBN
• Ethics and strategic defense : American philosophers debate Star Wars and the future of nuclear deterrence, 1989.
• God, immortality, ethics : a concise introduction to philosophy. Editions published between 1990 and 2001.

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Department of Philosophy". Baruch College. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/philosophy/dlackey.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
2. ^ Shin Chiba, Thomas J. Schoenbaum (2008). Peace movements and pacifism after September 11. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 78. ISBN 9781847206671. http://books.google.com/books?id=_RsM8lPWtb4C&pg=PA78&dq=douglas+P.+lackey+gandhi&hl=en&ei=1IHsS4fIOJ-OnQPDi5TcBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=douglas%20P.%20lackey%20gandhi&f=false. 

References

• WorldCat Identities, [1].

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