# Just War: A Select Bibliography **URL:** **By** Bill Evers **Published:** January 1, 1980 --- “A select bibliography on the morality of war.” Noam Chomsky, “An Exception to the Rules,” _Inquiry_, vol. 1, no. 11, (April 17, 1978). A review of Michael Walzer’s _Just and Unjust Wars_ concentrating on the exceptions that Walzer makes for the Israeli government. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ “The Rule of Force in International Affairs,” in _For Reasons of State_ (New York: Random House, 1973). a review of Telford Taylor’s Nuremberg and Vietnam. Lewis Hanke, _Aristotle and the American Indians_ (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959). Discussion of the dispute among sixteenth-century Spanish philosophers over whether the Indians were inferior and whether war against them was justified. One of Hanke’s many excellent books on the subject. James Turner Johnson, _Ideology, Reason and the Limitation of War_ (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975). History of the development of just war doctrine from 1200 to 1740. H.D. Lewis, “The Non-Moral Notion of Collective Responsibility,” in Peter A. French, ed., _Individual and Collective Responsibility_ (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1972). Excellent criticism of the notion that society in general rather than individuals can be held morally responsible. Richard A. Wasserstrom, ed., _War and Morality_ (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1970). An anthology of twentieth century philosophical writings on war, the most useful of which is John C. Ford’s on obliteration bombing. Williamson M. Evers is Editor of _Inquiry_ magazine.