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18 One should note that the rule and stance enact our previous concern for uni-Calling: The Church’s Witness in Politics and SocietyJohn Knox, 2004); and Rita Nakashima Brock, Claudia Camp, and Serene Jones (eds.), 1995), pp. 155–76.Setting the Table: Women in Theological Conversation (Louisville, KY: Westminister/ (St. Louis: Chalice,
19 This argument is usually associated with communitarian and postliberal theo-versality, fiidentity in social life.logians like Stanley Hauerwas, Paul GriffiLindbeck, and others in the United States. nality, locality, and autonomy, but now with respect to questions of ths, Sam Wells, Stephen Long, George
20 See Paul Ricoeur, 21 We are mindful that the debate about so-called just war theory is exceedingly Chicago Press, 2000).complex. While we endorse some form of just war thinking, since one has an obligation to protect people from the desecration of their humanity by others, The Just, trans. David Pellauer (Chicago: University of
22 Hannah Arendt, 23 BBC News, “Full Text: Kofiit is not possible in this book to enter into the details of just war theory. See Richard B. Miller, Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).The Portable Hannah ArendtThe Interpretation of Confl ict: Ethics, Pacifi cism and the Just-War Annan’s Final Speech,” http://www.newsvote.bbc.co.uk/ (New York: Penguin, 2003).
24 There are various types of current cosmopolitanism, the roots of which run mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6170089.stm.back to ancient Stoic and Christian thought in the West. One can, for instance, stress human capabilities, as Amartya Sen and also Martha Nussbaum do; others, such as Appiah and also Todorov, extend ideas from liberal humanism; still
others turn to human rights discourse, say, Richard Falk in his Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalized World2000). Our argument is built around responsibility, conscience, and the integrity of life. (New York: Routledge, Human Rights

1 See Max Velmans and Susan Schneider (eds.), 2 For a good summary, see Adam Zeman, Consciousness (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).Chapter 8 Masks of MindConsciousness: A User’s GuideThe Blackwell Companion to (New

3 John W. Searle, D. Hauser, (ed.), WrongHaven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 303–42. Also see Malcolm Jeeves Human Nature (New York: Harper Collins, 2006).Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Mind: A Brief Introduction (Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2006) and Marc. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004), p. 34.

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