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Barrie Paskins
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Dr. Barrie Paskins is a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. His areas of expertise include the philosophy and literature of war and the ethics of war. By training and inclination a philosopher, Dr. Paskins has worked in the Department of War Studies since 1971. In the past 30 years his work has proceeded at two levels: a more specific level geared to the needs of war studies and a more general level determined by the main problems of philosophy. Education Dr. Paskins received his doctorate from Cambridge University. The title of his dissertation was "On Wishing People Well". Current Work A new book on the ethics of war called The Idea of a Just War, arguing for an absolutist understanding of the principle of noncombatant immunity and outlining a theory of war that is systematically opposed to that of Clausewitz, was "complete" before the current Terrorism Crisis. It is now being revised to take account of current developments! He is currently working on a book to be called The Literature of War since Homer which argues that certain selected texts are the touchstones of excellence in imaginative writing about war. At the more general level of philosophy, Dr Paskins is continuing work on a study of philosophical anthopology called "Benevolent Animals". This contains a theory of the virtues and accounts of passion and motivation which purport to constitute an alternative to both utilitarian and Kantian thought. According to "Benevolent Animals", justice is one of the virtues. The Idea of a Just War attempts to draw out the meaning of this virtue for war studies. 
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