A PHILOSOPHY OF WAR -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: Why a Philosophy of War? -- CHAPTER TWO: Defining War -- DEFINING WAR -- CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING -- CHAPTER THREE: Types of War -- ANIMAL WARFARE -- PRIMITIVE WARFARE -- CIVILIZED OR POLITICAL WAR -- MODERN WARFARE -- NUCLEAR WARFARE -- POST-MODERN WARFARE -- CHAPTER FOUR: Metaphysics and the Non-Inevitability of War -- WAR: DETERMINISM AND MATERIALISM -- CHAPTER FIVE: Human Nature and War -- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE'S EXISTENTIALISM -- PLATO -- CHRISTIANITY -- MARXISM -- BEHAVIORISM -- CHAPTER SIX: War and Human Biology -- WAR AND INSTINCT -- SELF-SACRIFICE -- FEAR -- THE WEAKNESS OF INSTINCTIVISM -- AGGRESSIONISM -- AGGRESSIONISM AND NATURAL SELECTION -- AGGRESSIONISM AND FRUSTRATION -- WAR AND INHIBITIONS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Between Biology and Culture -- TERRITORIALISM -- COMPETITION -- COMPETING MOTIVES AND COOPERATION -- PREDISPOSITIONS AND MOTIVES -- IRRATIONAL MOTIVES -- MORALE: THE PRIVATE AND THE WARRIOR SPIRIT -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Culture and War -- CULTURALISM -- WAR AND CULTURE -- THE PERSISTENCE OF CULTURE: BOHEMIA -- CHAPTER NINE: Unintentional War -- CHAPTER TEN: Between Culture and Reason - Civilization and War -- NATURE OF CIVILIZATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Rationalism and War -- THE RATIONALIST THEORY OF WAR -- POLITICAL REALISM -- PRESCRIPTIVE REALISM -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Idealism, Metaphysical Beliefs and War -- METAPHYSICAL BELIEFS -- STATUS OF IDEAS -- METAPHYSICAL BELIEFS AND WAR -- TELEOLOGICAL THEORIES AND WAR -- HISTORICISM -- ESCHATOLOGY -- FREE WILL REVISITED -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Epistemological Beliefs and War -- EPISTEMOLOGY AND ACTION -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL ELITISM -- IRRATIONALISM AND FAITH -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Conclusions on War and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index.