| Description |
1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Outline -- 1. Permissible Defensive Harm and Liability -- 2. The Evidence-Relative View of Liability Attribution -- 3. The Evidence-Relative View and Intricate Symmetries -- 4. A Defense of Revisionist Just War Theory -- 5. A New Proposal for Liability in War -- 6. The Puzzle of Benevolent Aggression -- 7. Towards a New Liberal Theory of Just War -- 8. Conclusion: Answering Calvin -- Appendix: List of Cases in Order of Appearance -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that war, while awful, can be justified. Bradley Jay Strawser here addresses both subjects as equal parts in a larger meditation on the ethics of harm and moral responsibility-whether in war collectively or in individual self-defense-and whatever it is that lies in between. Strawser sets out by examining the moral justification for individual defensive killing and then tests its application to collective war as a natural outgrowth of the former. In seek |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Just war doctrine.
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Military ethics.
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Just war doctrine
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Military ethics
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190692537 |
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0190692537 |
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