Douglas P. Lackey

Douglas P. Lackey is a US philosopher and playwright.[1] He is also a Professor at CUNY Baruch College.

As a graduate student, he studied under J. N. Findlay at Yale University. His post-graduate work on the ethics of nuclear warfare was influenced by his attention to earlier works by Bertrand Russell.[1] His drama Kaddish in East Jerusalem was produced in 2003.[1] The play was later expanded and revised as The Gandhi Nonviolent Soccer Club.[1] He has also had plays produced about Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand, Earl Russell.[2]

Lackey divides pacifism into four categories: a universal, Christian view in which all killing is wrong; a universal, Gandhi-based system in which all violence is wrong; private pacificism, following Saint Augustine in seeing personal violence as universally wrong but political violence as sometimes acceptable; and anti-war pacifism, in which personal violence is at times justifiable, but war is never so.[3]

Works
  • Moral principles and nuclear weapons, 1984. ISBN
  • The ethics of war and peace, 1989. ISBN
  • Ethics and strategic defense : American philosophers debate Star Wars and the future of nuclear deterrence, 1989.
  • God, immortality, ethics : a concise introduction to philosophy. Editions published between 1990 and 2001.

References
  1. "The Department of Philosophy". Baruch College. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  2. "Ludwig and Bertie:A Comedy of Ideas". Theater for the New City. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  3. Shin Chiba, Thomas J. Schoenbaum (2008). Peace movements and pacifism after September 11. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-84720-667-1.
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