Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002) and Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004).

• Introduction; 1. The Sublime Grind of Ares; 2. The War of Public and Private; 3. Plato's Prophecy and Kant's Dream; 4. Democratic Control and Professional Ethics; 5. The Military Establishment; 6. The Democratic Peace Myth: From Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad; 7. The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War; 8. American Ambivalence: Militarism, Pacificism and Pragmatism; 9. Sliding Scales and the Mischief of War; 10. Waterboarding, Torture and Violence; 11. Conscientious Refusal and the Liberal Tradition; 12. Public Myths and Private Protest; Bibliography; Index.

"Fiala explores the relation between the public and the private, the state and the individual, and war and peace with philosophical rigor and clarity. His writing is superb, and the views he defends demand to be taken seriously. This is an urgent and important contribution to our on-going attempts to understand the human condition—a condition marked as much by violence and atrocity as it is by acts of kindness and generosity." - J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College, USA

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002) and Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004).

• Introduction; 1. The Sublime Grind of Ares; 2. The War of Public and Private; 3. Plato's Prophecy and Kant's Dream; 4. Democratic Control and Professional Ethics; 5. The Military Establishment; 6. The Democratic Peace Myth: From Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad; 7. The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War; 8. American Ambivalence: Militarism, Pacificism and Pragmatism; 9. Sliding Scales and the Mischief of War; 10. Waterboarding, Torture and Violence; 11. Conscientious Refusal and the Liberal Tradition; 12. Public Myths and Private Protest; Bibliography; Index.

"Fiala explores the relation between the public and the private, the state and the individual, and war and peace with philosophical rigor and clarity. His writing is superb, and the views he defends demand to be taken seriously. This is an urgent and important contribution to our on-going attempts to understand the human condition—a condition marked as much by violence and atrocity as it is by acts of kindness and generosity." - J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College, USA

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002) and Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004).

• Introduction; 1. The Sublime Grind of Ares; 2. The War of Public and Private; 3. Plato's Prophecy and Kant's Dream; 4. Democratic Control and Professional Ethics; 5. The Military Establishment; 6. The Democratic Peace Myth: From Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad; 7. The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War; 8. American Ambivalence: Militarism, Pacificism and Pragmatism; 9. Sliding Scales and the Mischief of War; 10. Waterboarding, Torture and Violence; 11. Conscientious Refusal and the Liberal Tradition; 12. Public Myths and Private Protest; Bibliography; Index.

"Fiala explores the relation between the public and the private, the state and the individual, and war and peace with philosophical rigor and clarity. His writing is superb, and the views he defends demand to be taken seriously. This is an urgent and important contribution to our on-going attempts to understand the human condition—a condition marked as much by violence and atrocity as it is by acts of kindness and generosity." - J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College, USA