Killing in War

AvJeff McMahan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-23
Mått:145 x 223 x 19 mm
Vikt:455 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199548668

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Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works primarily in ethics and political philosophy, and occasionally in metaphysics and legal theory.

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McMahan's outstanding and readable book Killing in War.. . should help to quiet non-philosophers who dismiss Anglo-American philosophy for being esoteric and aloof, and philosophers who complain that little is happening in moral and political philosophy... He gives comprehensive arguments; he charitably formulates and conscientiously responds to objections. His conclusions might make many readers uncomfortable, but he arrives at them on the basis of moral considerations that otherwise are not particularly controversial... [The book's] rigor, depth, and humanity are estimable.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Morality of Participation in an Unjust War ; 2. Arguments for the Moral Equality of Combatants ; 3. Excuses ; 4. Liability and the Limits of Self-Defense ; 5. Civilian Immunity and Civilian Liability