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How We Fight

By Helen Frowe

How We Fight

By Helen Frowe

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How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations ofclassic in bello topics, such as the principle of non-combatant immunity and the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the volume also addresses ad bellum topics, such as pacifism and punitive justifications for war, and explores the relationship between ad bellum and in bellotopics, or how the fighting of a war may affect our judgments concerning whether that war meets the ad bellum conditions. The essays take a keen interest in the micro-foundations of just war theory, and uphold the general assumption that the rules of war must be supported, if they are going to besupported at all, by the liability and non-liability of the individuals who are encompassed by those rules. Relatedly, the volume also contains work which is relevant to the moral justification of several moral doctrines used, either explicitly or implicitly, in just war theory: in the doctrine ofdouble effect, in the generation of liability in basic self-defensive cases, and in the relationship between liability and the conditions which are normally appended to permissible self-defensive violence: imminence, necessity, and proportionality. The volume breaks new ground in all these areas.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2014-06-17
Publication Date:
2014-06-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199673438
ISBN13:
9780199673438
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
514 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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